Synopsis

lvm2 bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for lvm2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The lvm2 packages include complete support for handling read and write operations on physical volumes, creating volume groups from one or more physical volumes, and creating one or more logical volumes in volume groups.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of lvm2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 928996 - Determine which LVM device types can be stacked, in which order.
• BZ - 979121 - lvm seems to report wrong precedence when having duplicate VGs/etc.
• BZ - 1075644 - Resizing pool metadata on RAID10 LV fails due to rounding error
• BZ - 1077405 - Various dm_task_run failures cause many continuing problems in LVM
• BZ - 1090101 - RAID LV leg not fully synced after split and merge
• BZ - 1095463 - lvmetad has over a million sockets open after long run of raid failure testing
• BZ - 1131777 - LVM cache: If writethrough, allow abandoning cachepool (lvconvert --uncache) if it has failed, and is also inactive
• BZ - 1158172 - lvconvert splits allocation unnecessarily for legacy "mirror" segment type - take 2
• BZ - 1169495 - RFE: allow raid scrubbing on cache origin raid volumes
• BZ - 1189221 - LVM should not default to thin_pool_autoextend_threshold = 100
• BZ - 1191594 - LVM RAID - Add support for 'raid0' segment type to lvm2 tools
• BZ - 1191630 - LVM RAID - Add support for raid level takeover (part 1)
• BZ - 1199837 - lvm jump TransactionID without getting confirmation from kernel
• BZ - 1240549 - Display ancestors and descendants for thin snapshot/origin LVs even after dependency chain is broken after removing some LVs
• BZ - 1244153 - Clone operation fails when use_lvmetad is enabled
• BZ - 1254393 - pvremove of a device under cloned vg fails
• BZ - 1261631 - when creating a shared VG w/o already exisiting PVs, the PV name is displayed three times during the create
• BZ - 1264972 - unable to resize thin meta volume residing on a shared VG
• BZ - 1266932 - "Volume group not found" issues when doing meta intensive operations on shared VGs
• BZ - 1269893 - Clarify -l|--extents option in lvcreate man page
• BZ - 1270338 - pvscan segfaults if lvmlockd is running yet lvmetad is not
• BZ - 1271291 - pvmove can cause 'VG lock skipped: storage errors for sanlock leases'
• BZ - 1274676 - Resize of full thin-pool looses data
• BZ - 1274762 - "Internal error: pool_is_active called with non-pool LV" and confusing error message when running --repair on cpool.
• BZ - 1275098 - [abrt] device-mapper-event: _timeout_thread(): dmeventd killed by SIGSEGV
• BZ - 1282563 - dmstats: add support for grouping and aggregation
• BZ - 1286285 - dmstats: allow mapping of files to stats regions
• BZ - 1289486 - RHEL7: lvresize on root volume hangs or does not complete, lvmetad blocked due to suspended LVM device
• BZ - 1290874 - --test cache|cachepool conversion appears to lead to corrupted locks on disk
• BZ - 1294605 - "lvconvert“ man page needs correction
• BZ - 1295562 - LVM snapshot does not get deleted after merging the snapshot on LVs that could not be unmounted and system needs to be rebooted for the snapshot to get merge.
• BZ - 1296312 - unable to convert thin meta|data volume residing on a shared VG
• BZ - 1298359 - pvs marked unallocatable do not remain that way after a backed up vgcfgrestore
• BZ - 1299977 - Move lvmlockd to full support, remove tech preview classification for lvmlockd
• BZ - 1305894 - confusing docs about lvcreate -W
• BZ - 1314482 - Inconsistent headings in 'lvs' output for cache
• BZ - 1320730 - mirror recovery issues cause filesystems to be shut down
• BZ - 1323950 - Resizing PV to be larger than the containing partition is allowed without force.
• BZ - 1324028 - Possible timing issue when processing udev events for multipathed PV causing lvmetad and LVM commands to not see the PV
• BZ - 1325394 - lvm2 and device-mapper package file conflict issues
• BZ - 1326426 - raid10 leg repair size calculation is wrong
• BZ - 1328372 - [abrt] device-mapper-event: _timeout_thread(): dmeventd killed by SIGSEGV
• BZ - 1329235 - lvm automatically unmounts docker thin devices when thin pool is full
• BZ - 1333670 - Warning during lvm2 installation: user -. does not exist - using root
• BZ - 1333679 - lvm2-lockd-2.02.152-2.el7.x86_64 fails to install because of missing dependencies
• BZ - 1340146 - lvm2 stumbles on itself during an update
• BZ - 1344206 - vgck scan all devices even if filter is configured
• BZ - 1347047 - pvscan error when running with lvmlockd
• BZ - 1347697 - lvmetad should either die or disable itself in case of duplicated PVs - but never deadlock waiting on mutex
• BZ - 1347796 - initial global lock can take almost three minutes
• BZ - 1348327 - vgcfgrestore segfaults if attempted with missing PV
• BZ - 1348336 - full thin pool now allows additional virt volume creation
• BZ - 1352174 - RFE: use "LV type: mirror" in error if mirrors activated with -asy are not to work w/ lvmlockd
• BZ - 1353149 - different behaviors of "vgcreate -f" between versions
• BZ - 1353759 - lvconvert flags that no longer work with cache due to 'type' changes in .160-1
• BZ - 1354067 - raid0 needs to be protected from raid operations that do not apply
• BZ - 1354396 - lvmresize: resize of unchanged LV should not try to resize FS
• BZ - 1354549 - lvconvert segfaults when target PV is specified
• BZ - 1354604 - extension of raid0 appears to cause deadlock
• BZ - 1354646 - vgreduce --removemissing of partial activated raid0 volume segfaults
• BZ - 1354650 - raid0 needs a default stripe number
• BZ - 1354656 - raid0 resync attempt segfaults
• BZ - 1354686 - vgspilt can lead to OOM
• BZ - 1356734 - raid0 replace attempt segfaults
• BZ - 1357162 - RFE: if vg holding the lock is removed, remind user that 'lvmlockctl --gl-enable' is required to be run
• BZ - 1358532 - raid6 --nosync flag create regression
• BZ - 1358961 - vgsplit attempt of external origin volume fail with "Internal error: Referenced LV not listed in VG"
• BZ - 1364244 - LVM Cache: limit number of cache chunks to the amount tested
• BZ - 1365286 - Converting thin pool_tdata containing virt LVs to/from raid1|10 results in failure
• BZ - 1365772 - New reporting features related to report groups and formatting report output
• BZ - 1366060 - raid10 max image attempt fails "maximum supported areas 8 (is 10) for raid10 segment"
• BZ - 1366737 - use consistent _rmeta naming convention during raid takeover
• BZ - 1366738 - raid take over should keep image/rmeta images on seperate PVs
• BZ - 1366739 - additionally added rimage/rmeta sublvs during take over should match: "_rimage_n" and "_rmeta_n"
• BZ - 1366745 - what does stripesize have to do with mirror creation?
• BZ - 1366749 - "Monitoring failed" messages during raid/mirror takeover
• BZ - 1366752 - "device-mapper: waitevent ioctl failed" messages when deleting mirror converted from raid1
• BZ - 1366760 - converted raid1 -> mirror takeover volume deadlocks during first mimage failure attempt
• BZ - 1367177 - inconsistent use of the "Adjusting stripes to the minimum of" for raid types
• BZ - 1367459 - vgsplit attempt of external origin volume fail with "Internal error: Referenced LV not listed in VG"
• BZ - 1367935 - raid0|raid0_meta create attempt w/ '-i 1' (or no -i flag which currently defaults to '-i 1') fails w/ "LV segments corrupted"
• BZ - 1368272 - "Failed to monitor" errors when caching origin volume using a raid pool volume
• BZ - 1369253 - raid take over attempt from raid10 -> raid1|mirror should fail with a 'not yet supported' message
• BZ - 1370658 - raid10 stripe limitation is 32, not 64 like the current error states
• BZ - 1372089 - LVM man: Update lvm(8) to mention specific non-zero exit code cannot be relied on
• BZ - 1374066 - metadata_percent and origin status fields are missing in rhel7.3
• BZ - 1376532 - 'Contiguous' policy should partition the tags across the areas if cling tags are defined in lvm.conf
• BZ - 1376562 - last created dmstats file map isn't displayed
• BZ - 1376942 - '_get_device_info: device not found.' warning when deleting snapshot volumes
• BZ - 1379365 - Performance regression when manipulating larger metadata

CVEs

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References

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