Recommended update for smartmontools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1649-2
Rating: moderate
References:
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 ESPOS 12-SP2

An update that has five fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for smartmontools fixes the following issues:

smartmontools was updated to 6.6 version (FATE#321901, bsc#1080611, FATE#322874)

Changes:

  • smartctl:

    • -i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements.
    • Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control with '-s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p]' and '-g wcache-sct'.
    • Print ATA Pending Defects log with '-l defects'.
    • '-s wcreorder,on|off': New persistent flag ',p'.
    • '-s standby': Prevent temporary drive spinup.
    • '-n POWERMODE': New parameter to set exit status.
    • '-g security': ATA Security Level check fixed.
    • '-l scttemp*': Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit.
    • '-q noserial': Now also suppresses "SAS address" output.
    • '-i': Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace.
    • '-c': Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags.
    • '-A': Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition statistic.
    • '-g/s dsn': Get/set ATA DSN.
  • smartd

    • Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate devices.
    • '-e dsn' directive: Set ATA DSN.
    • Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging.
    • Silence emails and log messages on open errors of '-d removable' devices.
    • Exit on device open error unless '-q never' or '-d removable' is specified (regression).
  • update-smart-drivedb: Now authenticates downloaded file with GnuPG.

  • update-smart-drivedb: New options '--trunk', '--no-verify' and '--export-key'.
  • Device type '-d intelliprop,N' for IntelliProp controllers.
  • SCSI: Default timeout increased to 1 minute.
  • configure: New options '--with-gnupg', '--with-scriptpath' and '--with-update-smart-drivedb=X.Y'
  • configure: Checks for C++11 support option and requires '--with[out]-cxx11-option' if option unknown or no C++11 support.
  • HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  • New smartmontools-* mailing list addresses.
  • Man page formatting reworked.
  • Linux:

    • Uses SG_IO V4 API if supported.
    • Devices behind hpsa driver are no longer detected as regular SCSI devices.
  • Darwin: Initial NVMe support based on undocumented API.

  • FreeBSD:

    • Fix panic on INVARIANTS enabled kernel.
    • Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers.
    • Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer.
  • NetBSD:

    • NVMe support.
    • Full 28-bit ATA support.
    • Compile fix.
    • Use a raw disk device file.
  • OpenBSD: Compile fix.

  • OS/2: Support for the OS2AHCI driver, updating source code, adding autoscan support, adding self-test support.
  • Windows fixes:

    • Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys).
    • Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2.
    • smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with '-M exec'.
    • smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails without external tools.
    • package now provides PDF man pages.
  • SCSI temperature error fixes (bsc#1047198)

  • Drop systemd dependency on syslog.target (bsc#983938). https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2013-05/msg00102.html

Updated to 6.5 version:

  • Experimental support for NVMe devices on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
  • smartctl '-i', '-c', '-H' and '-l error': NVMe support.
  • smartctl '-l nvmelog': New option for NVMe.
  • smartd.conf '-H', '-l error' and '-W': NVMe support.
  • Optional NVMe device scanning support on Linux and Windows.
  • configure option '--with-nvme-devicescan' to include NVMe in
  • default device scanning result.
  • Device scanning now allows to specify multiple '-d TYPE' options.
  • ATA: Added new POWER MODE values introduced in ATA ACS-2.
  • ATA: SCT commands are no longer issued if ATA Security is locked.
  • SCSI: LB provisioning improvements.
  • SCSI: Fixed GLTSD bit set/cleared info messages.
  • SCSI: Solid State media log page is no longer checked for tapes.
  • SCSI: Improved handling when no tape cartridge in drive.
  • SCSI: Workaround for buggy Seagate firmware.
  • SAT: Improved heuristics to detect bogus sense data from SAT layer.
  • smartd: Fixed crash on missing argument to '-s' directive. update-smart-drivedb: Now uses HTTPS for download by default.
  • update-smart-drivedb: New options to select URL and download tool.
  • update-smart-drivedb: New download tool 'svn'.
  • configure option '--without-update-smart-drivedb' to disable update-smart-drivedb script.
  • configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates', '--enable-attributelog' and '--with-docdir' are no longer supported.
  • autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are no longer supported.
  • Drive database file now also includes the DEFAULT setting for each attribute.
  • HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  • Darwin: New support files for package installer.
  • New makefile target 'install-darwin' builds DMG image.
  • Solaris: Auto detection of SATA devices behind SAT layer.
  • Solaris SPARC: Legacy ATA support disabled by default. New configure option '--with-solaris-sparc-ata' enables it. File os_solaris_ata.s is no longer included in source tarball.
  • Windows: Auto detection of USB devices specified by drive letter.
  • Windows: Device scanning does no longer ignore unknown USB devices.
  • Windows: Prevent drive spin up by '-n standby' check.
  • Windows: New application manifests indicating Win 10 support.
  • Windows smartd: '-m [sys]msgbox' is no longer supported.
  • Windows installer: Defaults to 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
  • Various code changes suggested by Clang Static Analyser and Cppcheck.

  • enable "--with-nvme-devicescan" option

  • use --with-savestates, --with-attributelog, --docdir instead of old options

Updated to version 6.0.4:

  • Device type ' *d usbprolific' for Prolific PL2571/277x USB bridges.
  • SAT: Support for ATA registers returned in fixed format sense data.
  • smartctl ' i' and ' * identify': ATA ACS *4 and SATA 3.2 enhancements.
  • smartctl ' *l xerror': Support for logs with more than 255 pages.
  • smartctl ' l devstat': Prints ACS 3 DSN flags.
  • smartctl ' *l devstat': Read via SMART command if GP log is not available.
  • smartctl ' l scttempsts': Prints SCT SMART STATUS (ACS 4) and vendor specific SCT bytes.
  • configure option ' * with systemdenvfile=auto' as new default.
  • configure options ' * disable drivedb', ' * enable savestates' and ' * enable attributelog' are deprecated.
  • Corresponding ' * with *' options are enhanced accordingly.
  • Configure option ' * with docdir' is deprecated.
  • autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are deprecated. (all of the above still work but a warning is printed if used)
  • HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  • Linux: AACRAID fixes, SMART STATUS should work now.
  • Linux: '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak fix.
  • Darwin: ' S' command implemented, ' l devstat' should work now.
  • Cygwin: Compile fix.
  • Windows: Device type ' *d aacraid' for AACRAID controllers.
  • Windows: SAT autodetection based on IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY.
  • Windows installer: Fix possible loss of user PATH environment variable.
  • Cleanup and remove conditional macros; the package doesn't build for SLE anyway

  • Run Self Tests:

  • Short Self Test every night

  • Extended Self Test every month
  • Discussion: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-03/msg00040.html

  • Package empty /etc/smartd_warning.d for warning plugins.

  • Re-add /usr/sbin/rcsmards symlink (bsc#900099).

  • Fix service restart in smartmontools.generate_smartd_opts.in (bsc#900099).

Updated to version 6.3:

  • smartctl: Fixed bogus error messages from '-g/-s wcreorder'.
  • smartctl prints ATA form factor.
  • SCSI: Improved support of modern disks (SAS SSDs).
  • SCSI: Fixed sense data noise from old disks.
  • update-smart-drivedb man page.
  • configure option '--with-smartdscriptdir'.
  • configure option '--with-smartdplugindir'.
  • configure option '--with-systemdenvfile'.
  • configure option '--with-working-snprintf'.
  • Removed build time stamps to support reproducible builds.
  • Compile fixes for C++11.
  • HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
  • Linux: Support for controllers behind AACRAID driver.
  • Linux: Fixed DEVICESCAN max path count.
  • FreeBSD: Fixed possible crash caused by wrong SCSI error handling.
  • FreeBSD: Compile fix for kFreeBSD.
  • Windows: Reworked CSMI port scanning.
  • QNX: Compile fix.

  • Make possible to disable broken SAT support by -d scsi+cciss,N (bsc#1038271 https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/871).

  • Build with large file support in 32 bit systems.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-1116=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 ESPOS 12-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-ESPOS-2018-1116=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2 (x86_64)
    • smartmontools-6.6-6.3.3
    • smartmontools-debugsource-6.6-6.3.3
    • smartmontools-debuginfo-6.6-6.3.3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 ESPOS 12-SP2 (x86_64)
    • smartmontools-6.6-6.3.3
    • smartmontools-debugsource-6.6-6.3.3
    • smartmontools-debuginfo-6.6-6.3.3

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