Issued:

2011-01-25

Updated:

2011-01-25

RHBA-2011:0173 - device-mapper-multipath bug fix update

Synopsis

device-mapper-multipath bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated device-mapper-multipath packages that resolve an issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools to manage multipath devices by giving the "dm-multipath" kernel module instructions on what to do, as well as by managing the creation and removal of partitions for Device-Mapper devices.

These updated device-mapper-multipath packages fix the following bug:

• When all paths of a pathgroup with set group_by_prio were restored after a failure, multipathd could place some paths into a wrong pathgroup. This issue occurred, because the daemon checked if pathgroups needed reconfiguration only if a path priority changed. When the original paths were restored, they could have been assigned the same priority as before the failure. In such case the paths were incorrectly left in a wrong pathgroup. With this update, when checking if it needs to recalculate the pathgroups, the multipathd daemon refreshes and checks all priorities once a new path becomes available and places recovered paths into the correct pathgroup. (BZ#658937)

All users of device-mapper-multipath are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve 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.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• kpartx-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• kpartx-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.ppc64.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• kpartx-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.src.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• kpartx-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
• device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-31.el6_0.1.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 658937

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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