Recommended update for multipath-tools

Announcement ID:	SUSE-RU-2020:2890-1
Rating:	important
References:	bsc#1125043 bsc#1139837 bsc#1161923 bsc#1165786 bsc#1172157 bsc#1172429 bsc#1173060 bsc#1173064 bsc#1176644 bsc#1176670
Affected Products:	Basesystem Module 15-SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 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 SP2 SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that has 10 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for multipath-tools fixes the following issues:

• Fixed an issue where mapping two WWID's to the same multipath led to a data corruption (bsc#1172429)
• Improved logging of some failure cases (bsc#1173060, bsc#1173064)
• Limited the PRIN allocation length to 8192 bytes (bsc#1165786)
• Added "-e" option to enable foreign libraries (bsc#1139837)
• Fixed an issue when handling synthetic uevents (bsc#1161923)
• Fix handling of hardware properties for maps without paths (bsc#1176644)
• Fixed an issue where all paths were dropped from a storage array (bsc#1125043)
• Fixed handling of incompletely initialized udev devices (bsc#1172157)

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-SP2
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-2890=1

Package List:

• Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • multipath-tools-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • kpartx-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • libdmmp0_2_0-debuginfo-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • libdmmp-devel-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • libdmmp0_2_0-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • kpartx-debuginfo-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1
  • multipath-tools-devel-0.8.2+140.5146cae-4.3.1

References:

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125043
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139837
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161923
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165786
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172157
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172429
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173060
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173064
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176644
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176670