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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2018:0871 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2018-04-10
Updated:
2018-04-10

RHEA-2018:0871 - Product Enhancement Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

vdo bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

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

Description

The vdo packages provide Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO), which is a block virtualization technology that allows you to create compressed and deduplicated pools of block storage.

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 vdo 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 Desktop 7 x86_64
  • 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 7.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • 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 x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1505885 - vdo --blockMapPeriod accepts values outside bound <1, 16380> and sets them to bounds
  • BZ - 1505891 - vdo --vdoAckThreads, --vdoBioRotationInterval, --vdoBioThreads, --vdoCpuThreads, --vdoLogicalThreads, --vdoPhysicalThreads do not check input properly
  • BZ - 1505936 - vdo --readCacheSize allows extremely high values without warning
  • BZ - 1507927 - VDO modify --blockMapPeriod does not change the period
  • BZ - 1507996 - vdo create allows creation on block device that is already used by another vdo
  • BZ - 1507999 - Interruption vdo create before superblock is created hangs the vdo without enough info to remove it
  • BZ - 1508452 - VDO does not allow --vdoLogicalSize > 4096T, but there is no limit in man/help
  • BZ - 1508544 - vdo cli allows all options for all commands
  • BZ - 1508918 - Some vdo commands do not return missing argument error when run without needed options
  • BZ - 1510405 - vdo create --indexMem=0 is not accepted anymore
  • BZ - 1510581 - issues when attempting vdo creation on live filesystem
  • BZ - 1510585 - vdo creation fails on multiple partitioned devices
  • BZ - 1511034 - vdoformat program erroneously prints "Exceeds maximum number of slabs" for case where index size is too big
  • BZ - 1511042 - 'vdo: ERROR - Insufficient block map cache for vdo' with --vdoLogicalThreads HIGH, missing info in manpage about this link
  • BZ - 1511075 - vdo manpage: Wrong maximum --vdoPhysicalThreads count
  • BZ - 1511085 - vdo crate --vdoHashZoneThreads does not allow value 0
  • BZ - 1511091 - vdo create --vdoLogicalThreads 0 does not check if --vdoPhysicalThreads and --vdoHashZoneThreads are both 0
  • BZ - 1511109 - RFE: attempt to quiet vdo remove messages
  • BZ - 1512127 - Creating a VDO volume over the metadata of a previously removed VDO volume fails
  • BZ - 1512157 - vdo man page spells "vdoHashZoneThreads" with extra "s" in some places
  • BZ - 1512968 - Clean up UDS threads when removing last vdo.
  • BZ - 1513438 - vdo backing device is not recognized by blkid/wipefs
  • BZ - 1515183 - "vdo create" should set the device mapper UUID
  • BZ - 1519330 - VDO physical size does not reflect actual physical size usable by user
  • BZ - 1520927 - vdo create --confFile with path to block_device should not be allowed
  • BZ - 1520972 - vdoformat does not clean up metadata properly after fail
  • BZ - 1520991 - vdo create --indexMem > 1024 gives wrong error
  • BZ - 1522750 - vdo --logfile should not allow block device
  • BZ - 1522754 - vdo create --noRun ends with "ERROR - 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'read'"
  • BZ - 1522906 - vdo volumes should persist across reboot
  • BZ - 1522943 - Remove nagios_check_albserver.pl from VDO RPM
  • BZ - 1525560 - vdo --help is not listed correctly
  • BZ - 1530358 - Running "vdo remove" for a non-existent device creates zero-byte regular file in old device path
  • BZ - 1531047 - VDO should remove symlink to vdo.service when uninstalled
  • BZ - 1532653 - vdo growLogical by less than 4K gives wrong error
  • BZ - 1535127 - vdo growLogical changes write policy to the same
  • BZ - 1536214 - VDO Ansible module in the 6.1.0.114 package fails on modification operations
  • BZ - 1539059 - VDO RPM refer to Red Hat URL, and not Github URL

CVEs

(none)

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/index.html
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6

SRPM
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.src.rpm SHA-256: 80a73103b29c95e611e268a61a345a4a15cc88327339722eba9b9417b34bc2aa
x86_64
vdo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2db7d013319c5d62d36ec1453f477a40745f9a83222b87aa37bde262236e5b7f
vdo-debuginfo-6.1.0.149-16.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97aa9a898fa21e48f60f1d95e53a23c6fce86eb72cc517be30b2e819006f8468

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