Recommended update for mdadm

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for mdadm
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1654-1
Rating: low
References: #1032802 #1081910 #808647 #881530 #882634 #887773 #923920 #926517 #926767 #937363 #939748 #943028 #953595 #956236 #966773 #974154
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS
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    An update that has 16 recommended fixes can now be installed.

    Description:

    This update for mdadm provides the backporting of some critical fixes from
    upstream, and replace some existing patches with their upstream
    counterpart (bsc#1081910). The following fixes are included:

    - Grow: Followup fix for a problem that reshape fails to continue after
    restart on IMSM RAID array. (bsc#881530)
    - mdmon: Ensure Unix domain socket is created with safe permissions.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - IMSM: Add a warning message when assembling a spanned container.
    (bsc#882634)
    - mdmon: Allow prepare_update to report failures. (bsc#1081910)
    - DDF, IMSM: Validate metadata_update size before using it. (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Do not try to restart if reshape is running. (bsc#887773)
    - Grow: Fix a problem that was preventing resize of arrays to 32bit size.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Improve error message if "--grow -n2" is used on linear arrays.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Assemble: Only fail auto-assemble in face of mdadm.conf conflicts.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - config: Add a new option to suppress adding bad block lists.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Monitor: Stop monitoring devices that have disappeared. (bsc#1081910)
    - super1: Do not allow adding a bitmap if there is no space. (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Report when grow needs metadata update. (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Fix resizing of array components to greater than 32bits sizes/
    (bsc#1081910)
    - imsm: Add support for OROMs shared by multiple HBAs. (fate#317456)
    - imsm: Add support for second and combined AHCI controllers in UEFI mode.
    (fate#317456)
    - imsm: Add support for NVMe devices. (fate#317456)
    - imsm: Add some detail-platform improvements. (fate#317456)
    - imsm: Use efivarfs interface for reading UEFI variables. (fate#317456)
    - Monitor: Fix a regression with container devices. (bsc#1081910)
    - imsm: Simplified the support for multiple OROMs. (bsc#1081910)
    - Assemble: Fix "no uptodate device" message. (bsc#1081910)
    - Assemble: Allow a RAID4 to assemble easily when parity devices are
    missing. (bsc#926767)
    - Assemble/force: Make it possible to "force" a new device in a reshape.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - IMSM: Count arrays per OROM. (bsc#926517)
    - Assemble: Do not check for pre-existing array when updating uuid.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Only warn about incompatible metadata when no fallback available.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Be more careful if the array is stopped during critical section.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Be even more careful about handing a '0' completed value.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Fix problem with --grow --continue. (bsc#1081910)
    - Create n bitmaps for clustered mode. (bsc#1081910)
    - Add nodes option while creating md. (bsc#1081910)
    - Set home-cluster while creating an array. (bsc#1081910)
    - Show all bitmaps while examining bitmap. (bsc#1081910)
    - Add a new clustered disk. (bsc#1081910)
    - Convert a bitmap=none device to clustered. (bsc#1081910)
    - Skip clustered devices in incremental. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Add the ability to change cluster name. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Change the number of cluster node. (bsc#1081910)
    - Assemble: Ensure stripe_cache is big enough to handle new chunk size.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Monitor: Don't wait forever on a 'frozen' array. (bsc#1081910)
    - Manage/stop: Guard against 'completed' being too large. (bsc#1081910)
    - Manage/stop: Don't stop during initial critical section (bsc#1081910)
    - raid6check: Report role of suspect device. (bsc#1081910)
    - raid6check: Get device ordering correct for syndrome calculation.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Assemble: Really ensure stripe_cache is bit enough to handle new chunk
    size. (bsc#1081910)
    - restripe: Fix data block order in raid6_2_data_recov. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Document the --homehost=any functionality. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdassemble: Add "Name" definition. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdassemble: Do not try to perform cluster check. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdassemble: Include mapfile support. (bsc#1081910)
    - super1: Do not create bad block log for clustered devices. (bsc#1081910)
    - Fix --incremental handling on cluster array. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Make cluster raid also support re-add. (bsc#1081910)
    - re-add: Make re-add try to write the sysfs node first. (bsc#1081910)
    - Show device as journal in --detail --examine. (bsc#1081910)
    - Enable create array with write journal (--write-journal DEVICE).
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Assemble array with write journal. (bsc#1081910)
    - Check write journal in incremental. (bsc#1081910)
    - Add help message and man entry for --write-journal. (bsc#1081910)
    - Add a safeguard against writing to an active device of another node.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Add crc32c and use it for r5l checksum. (bsc#1081910)
    - Make sure 'path' buffer is large enough to fit 200 characters plus null
    terminator. (bsc#1081910)
    - Recreate journal in mdadm. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Allow cluster raid to also add disk within incremental mode.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Output information more precisely when changing bitmap to none.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Do not show cluster name once the bitmap is cleared. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Do not display bitmap info if it is cleared. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Do not try to hold dlm lock in free_super1. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Improve the safeguard for changing cluster raid's sb.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Detail: Report correct raid-disk for removed drives. (bsc#1081910)
    - Check and remove bitmap first when reshape to raid0. (bsc#1081910)
    - Create: Fix a regression in setting raid_disk. (bsc#1081910)
    - systemd/mdadm-last-resort: Add Conflicts to .service file. (bsc#1081910)
    - super0: Fix reporting of devices between 2GB and 4GB. (bsc#1081910)
    - super1: Allow reshape that hasn't really started to be reverted.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - super-intel: Ensure suspended region is removed when reshape completes.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Fix wrong bitmap output for cluster raid. (bsc#1081910)
    - mdadm: Add '--nodes' option in GROW mode. (bsc#1081910)
    - Consistent use of metric prefix in manpage. (bsc#1081910)
    - Create: Check the node numbers when creating a clustered raid.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Handle failure to load superblock in Grow_addbitmap().
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Grow: Simplify error paths in Grow_addbitmap(). (bsc#1081910)
    - The sys_name array in the mdinfo structure is 20 bytes of storage
    (bsc#1081910)
    - monitor: Make sure that last_checkpoint is set to 0 after sync.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Remove: Container should wait for an array to release a drive.
    (bsc#1081910)
    - Fix RAID metadata checking. (bsc#1081910)
    - Allow level migration only for single-array container. (bsc#1081910)
    - Fix bus error when accessing MBR partition records. (bsc#1081910)
    - Add failfast support. (fate#311379)
    - mdadm: Add bad block support for external metadata. (bsc#1081910)
    - Use disk sector size value to set offset for reading GPT. (bsc#1081910)
    - Always return last partition end address in 512B blocks. (bsc#1081910)
    - Add detail information when can't connect monitor. (bsc#1081910)
    - reshape: Support raid5 grow on certain older kernels. (bsc#923920)
    - Assemble: Do not assemble IMSM array without OROM. (bsc#939748,
    bsc#937363)
    - Fix --incremental handling on cluster array.
    - IMSM: Clear migration record on disks more often. (bsc#943028)
    - mdadm: Remove the cluster-md related information from the documentation.
    (fate#316335)
    - Display timeout status. (fate#311379)
    - Retry failed removes. (bsc#808647)
    - Detail: Ignore empty inactive arrays. (bsc#966773)
    - mdadm: Wait for remove to fix a segmentation fault from mdadm when using
    --manage --re-add (bsc#974154)
    - udev-md-raid-assembly.rules: Skip multipathed devices. (bsc#956236)
    - super1: Fix superblock's max_dev when adding a new disk in linear array.
    (bsc#1032802)

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Recommended 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 for SAP 12-SP1:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2018-1119=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2018-1119=1

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 (ppc64le x86_64):
      • mdadm-3.3.1-26.5.1
      • mdadm-debuginfo-3.3.1-26.5.1
      • mdadm-debugsource-3.3.1-26.5.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • mdadm-3.3.1-26.5.1
      • mdadm-debuginfo-3.3.1-26.5.1
      • mdadm-debugsource-3.3.1-26.5.1

    References: