Recommended update for nvme-stas

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2023:4683-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP5
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for nvme-stas fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 2.3
  • Support for NVMe Boot Firmware Table (NBFT) as configuration source
  • Optimization of udev handling (bsc#1214078)
  • Bug fixes and optimizations
  • Improve algorithm to see if we can reuse existing connections
  • udev: Optimize uevent handling
  • iputil: Reduce amount of netlink requests to the kernel
  • udev: FC/Loop - use case-insensitive comparison for traddr
  • trid: Take Host NQN into account
  • avahi: add connectivity checker to verify IP addresses are reachable
  • stafd|ctrl: Do not recreate ctrl object on nvme removed events
  • udev: Rework/simplify _cid_matches_tid()
  • udev-rules: Only react to rediscover events (not connected)
  • udev: Use ipaddress objects when comparing traddr.
  • udev: Only take src-addr into account for transport=="tcp"
  • trid: use strong comparison on host-iface
  • udev-rule: Invoke systemctl "restart" instead of "start"
  • udev: improve comparison between candidate and existing controllers
  • nbft: stafd will now use NBFT data (if found)
  • nbft: Add NbftConf() object to retrieve and cache NBFT data
  • iputil: Add mac2iface() and corresponding unit test
  • ctrl: fix inverted logic "is not None" to "is None"
  • staslib: Add method to retrieve NBFT data

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:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-4683=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4683=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-4683=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    • nvme-stas-2.3-150500.3.9.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • nvme-stas-2.3-150500.3.9.1

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