Recommended update for multipath-tools

Announcement ID:	SUSE-RU-2020:3015-1
Rating:	moderate
References:	bsc#1139775 bsc#1149319 bsc#1161923 bsc#1165786 bsc#1172157 bsc#1172429 bsc#1173060 bsc#1173064 bsc#1176644 bsc#1176670
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 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)
• Fix handling of hardware properties for maps without paths (bsc#1176644)
• Improved logging of some failure cases (bsc#1173060, bsc#1173064)
• Fixes an issue where the time origin haven't been resetted while waiting for the recovery time to expire (bsc#1149319)
• Fixed handling of incompletely initialized udev devices (bsc#1172157)
• Fixed an issue when handling synthetic uevents (bsc#1161923)
• Fixed an issue where DASD on loop devices was no longer recognized correctly (bsc#1139775)
• Limited the PRIN allocation length to 8192 bytes (bsc#1165786)

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-SP5-2020-3015=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-3015=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-3015=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-3015=1

Package List:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • multipath-tools-devel-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
  • kpartx-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • kpartx-debuginfo-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • kpartx-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • kpartx-debuginfo-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
  • kpartx-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debugsource-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-debuginfo-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • multipath-tools-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1
  • kpartx-debuginfo-0.7.9+195+suse.16740c5-3.3.1

References:

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139775
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149319
• 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