Issued:
2009-11-18
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2009:1592 - pciutils bug fix update

Synopsis

pciutils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated pciutils package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The pciutils package contains various utilities for inspecting and manipulating devices connected to the PCI bus.

This updated pciutils package fixes the following bug:

  • the pciutils use PCILIB, a portable, platform-independent library, to talk to PCI cards. By default PCILIB uses the first available access method but switches can be used to control its behavior. The PCILIB AND ITS OPTIONS section of the lspci man page lists two such switches (-H1 and -H2) that did not work as documented.

The -H1 switch was listed as allowing "direct hardware access via Intel configuration mechanism 1" and the -H2 switch as setting PCILIB to use mechanism 2. In the previous pciutils release, however, using either switch on AMD64 or Intel 64 architectures resulted in an "invalid option -- H" error. (Note: the switches worked as expected on 32-bit x86 architectures).

This error was due to the pciutils package not enabling these switches when compiled for 64-bit architectures. With this update the pciutils spec file includes a corrected build script which enables these features for AMD64 and Intel 64 and, consequently, provides Intel configuration mechanism support to 64-bit architectures as documented. (BZ#505557)

All pciutils users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • pciutils-2.2.3-8.el5.i386.rpm
  • pciutils-2.2.3-8.el5.ppc.rpm
  • pciutils-devel-2.2.3-8.el5.s390.rpm
  • pciutils-devel-2.2.3-8.el5.i386.rpm
  • pciutils-2.2.3-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • pciutils-devel-2.2.3-8.el5.ia64.rpm
  • pciutils-devel-2.2.3-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • pciutils-devel-2.2.3-8.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • pciutils-2.2.3-8.el5.s390x.rpm
  • pciutils-devel-2.2.3-8.el5.s390x.rpm
  • pciutils-devel-2.2.3-8.el5.ppc.rpm
  • pciutils-2.2.3-8.el5.ia64.rpm
  • pciutils-2.2.3-8.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information