Recommended update for crash

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2023:0874-2
Rating: moderate
References:
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2

An update that has five fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for crash fixes the following issues:

  • Updating crash from 15 SP2 version to 15 SP3 version (bsc#1206328)
  • Fix build on ppc64 - it needs full TOC as much as ppc64le.
  • Use the value of xen_start_info to determine whether the kernel is running in Xen PV mode.(bsc#1187634)
  • Fix bt command with SEV-ES (bsc#1185209)
  • Add back some more missing KMP conditionals
  • Crash KMPs cannot be always built.
  • Support the lockless printk ringbuffer added into kernel-5.10 (bsc#1183965)
  • Install and ship the small built-in extensions snap.so, trace.so, and dminfo.so.
  • Update arm64 support (bsc#1169099).

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 High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP2-LTSS-2023-874=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP2-LTSS-2023-874=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP2-2023-874=1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-7-2023-874=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • crash-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-debugsource-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-devel-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-debuginfo-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (x86_64)
    • crash-gcore-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-gcore-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • crash-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-debugsource-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-devel-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-debuginfo-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2 (x86_64)
    • crash-gcore-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-gcore-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • crash-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-debugsource-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-devel-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-debuginfo-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (x86_64)
    • crash-gcore-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-gcore-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • crash-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-debugsource-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-devel-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-kmp-default-debuginfo-7.2.9_k5.3.18_150200.24.145-150200.18.17.1
  • SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 (x86_64)
    • crash-gcore-debuginfo-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1
    • crash-gcore-7.2.9-150200.18.17.1

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