Recommended update for multipath-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2131-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5

An update that has eight fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for multipath-tools fixes the following issues:

  • Update from version 0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5 to version 0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57:
  • Improve handling of changed WWIDs and temporary failure to obtain WWID. Option "disable_changed_wwids" is now ignored. (bsc#1184260)
  • enable negated regular expression syntax in conf file (bsc#1182917)
  • change default devnode blacklist to '!^(sd[a-z]|dasd[a-z]|nvme[0-9])'
  • fixes for SAS expanders (bsc#1178377, bsc#1178379, bsc#1177081)
  • Avoid "illegal request" errors on non-RDAC storage (#bsc#1182072, bsc#1177371, bsc#1182072)
  • Fix problem determining device node names in complex SAS topology (bsc#1178377, bsc#1178379)
  • fix issues with SAS expanders (bsc#1178377, bsc#1178379, bsc#1177081)

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 Software Development Kit 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2021-2131=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-2131=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-2131=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-2131=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-devel-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • kpartx-debuginfo-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • kpartx-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • kpartx-debuginfo-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • kpartx-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • kpartx-debuginfo-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • kpartx-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2
    • multipath-tools-0.7.9+207+suse.58b7a57-3.9.2

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