Recommended update for multipath-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2025:0966-1
Release Date: 2025-03-20T07:53:42Z
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP6
  • openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

An update that has seven fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for multipath-tools fixes the following issues:

  • Version update 0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850 Backported bug fixes from upstream 0.9.9 - 0.10.2
  • Fixed bug leading to the error message "configured reservation key doesn't match: 0x0" (bsc#1228926).
  • Fixed bug that caused queueing to be always disabled if flushing a map failed (bsc#1229898).
  • Fixed output of multipath -t and multipath -T (bsc#1229898).
  • Fixed bug: don't print error message if WATCHDOG_USEC is 0 (bsc#1232227).
  • Fix map failure count for no_path_retry greater than 0 (bsc#1229898).
  • Fix reboot hang if uevent is processed for suspended device (bsc#1232063).
  • Don't set dev_loss_tmo to 0 for NO_PATH_RETRY_FAIL (bsc#1229898).
  • Fixed a memory leak in the nvme foreign library (bsc#1229898).
  • Fixed a problem in path detection algorithm that could cause I/O error failures (bsc#1236390).
  • Fix multipathd crash because of invalid path group index value, for example if an invalid path device was removed from a map (bsc#1236392).
  • Fix the problem that group_by_tpg might be disabled if one or more paths were offline during initial configuration (bsc#1236392).
  • Make sure udev and systemd notice changes in multipath path state when devices are added to or removed from multipath maps (bsc#1236321).

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 15.6
    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-966=1 SUSE-2025-966=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP6
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-966=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)
    • libmpath0-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libdmmp0_2_0-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • kpartx-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • kpartx-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libdmmp0_2_0-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libmpath0-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libdmmp-devel-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-devel-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libmpath0-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libdmmp0_2_0-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • kpartx-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • kpartx-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libdmmp0_2_0-debuginfo-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libmpath0-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • libdmmp-devel-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3
    • multipath-tools-devel-0.9.8+111+suse.b7ee850-150600.3.3.3

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