RHEA-2018:0776 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for device-mapper-persistent-data is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The device-mapper-persistent-data packages provide device-mapper thin provisioning utilities.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of device-mapper-persistent-data 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 Server - AUS 7.7 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 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 Scientific Computing 7 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 Server - AUS 7.6 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 Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• 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 - 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 for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1079067 - unable to restore pool _tmeta device from live thin_dump'ed file
• BZ - 1253031 - thin_delta help differs from what -h and thin_delta(8) say
• BZ - 1255552 - thin_restore/cache_restore shouldn't corrupt a meta device if given a non existent file to restore from
• BZ - 1274834 - check_cache 'slowness'
• BZ - 1450196 - man page for era_invalidate doesn't include all options
• BZ - 1450199 - man pages reference non-existent era_repair(8)
• BZ - 1450200 - Missing man page for era_restore
• BZ - 1469025 - [man thin_ls] Missing comma between TRANSACTION and CREATE_TIME
• BZ - 1469178 - Unknown command 'thin_show_duplicates' and missing manpage
• BZ - 1469183 - thin_ls manpage contains "--verbose" option but it is unrecognized
• BZ - 1471095 - "Unknown command" when trying to run 'thin_trim'
• BZ - 1473747 - Segmentation fault when running thin_repair or thin_ls on thin_dump metadata
• BZ - 1475293 - thin_metadata_size -V returns 1 after success
• BZ - 1476253 - thin_rmap works without --region, but outputs nothing
• BZ - 1476280 - Differences between command -h and its manpage
• BZ - 1476769 - segmentation fault when running thin_rmap from bad file
• BZ - 1477284 - segmentation fault when running thin_delta with wrong -- option
• BZ - 1477998 - pdata_tools killed by SIGABRT after cache_restore --debug-override-metadata-version $bad_version
• BZ - 1478039 - cache_check reports corrupt superblock on good cache_dump metadata
• BZ - 1512844 - cache_restore tool may corrupt cache metadata

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/index.html