Recommended update for mdadm

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:3919-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that contains one feature can now be installed.

Description:

This update for mdadm fixes the following issues:

  • Detail: show correct raid level when the array is inactive. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Don't create bitmap for raid5 with journal disk. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Monitor: refresh mdstat fd after select. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Monitor: stop notifing about containers. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • mdmonitor: set small delay once. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Check if other Monitor instance running before fork. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Super1: allow RAID0 layout setting to be removed. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Detail: fix segfault during IMSM raid creation. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Create.c: close mdfd and generate uevent. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • imsm: remove redundant calls to imsm_get_map. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Monitor: don't use default modes when creating a file. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • imsm: limit support to first NVMe namespace. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • mdadm: Unify forks behaviour. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • mdadm/Detail: show correct state for clustered array. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • Make target to install binaries only. (jsc#SLE-13700)
  • udev: start grow service automatically. (jsc#SLE-13700)

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-3919=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-3919=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • mdadm-debugsource-4.1-15.23.1
    • mdadm-debuginfo-4.1-15.23.1
    • mdadm-4.1-15.23.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • mdadm-debugsource-4.1-15.23.1
    • mdadm-debuginfo-4.1-15.23.1
    • mdadm-4.1-15.23.1

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