Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0906 - udev bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

udev bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated udev packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The udev packages implement a dynamic device-directory, providing only the devices present on the system. This dynamic directory runs in user space, dynamically creates and removes devices, provides consistent naming, and a user-space API. The udev package replaces the devfs package and provides better hot plug functionality.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, libudev's function udev_device_get_devnode() returned NULL if the function was called before the udevd daemon processed the uevent for the device node. With this update, the udev_device_get_devnode() function now returns the devnode provided by the kernel. (BZ#784648)

• Previously, the udev-post non-service script located in the /etc/init.d/ directory always returned a failure code on a status request. This bug has been fixed in this update so that the udev-post service now returns information on whether it has already been run. (BZ#735410)

• Previously, the udev(7) man page did not mention the "nowatch" option. With this update, the "nowatch" option is now properly documented in the udev(7) man page. (BZ#628762)

All users of udev are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• libudev-147-2.41.el6.ppc.rpm
• libudev-147-2.41.el6.s390.rpm
• udev-147-2.41.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libgudev1-147-2.41.el6.i686.rpm
• libudev-147-2.41.el6.x86_64.rpm
• udev-debuginfo-147-2.41.el6.s390.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-147-2.41.el6.i686.rpm
• libudev-147-2.41.el6.i686.rpm
• libudev-devel-147-2.41.el6.s390.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-147-2.41.el6.s390x.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-147-2.41.el6.s390.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-147-2.41.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libudev-devel-147-2.41.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-147-2.41.el6.x86_64.rpm
• udev-debuginfo-147-2.41.el6.ppc64.rpm
• udev-147-2.41.el6.i686.rpm
• libgudev1-147-2.41.el6.s390.rpm
• libudev-devel-147-2.41.el6.ppc.rpm
• udev-debuginfo-147-2.41.el6.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-147-2.41.el6.x86_64.rpm
• udev-147-2.41.el6.x86_64.rpm
• udev-147-2.41.el6.s390x.rpm
• udev-147-2.41.el6.src.rpm
• libudev-devel-147-2.41.el6.i686.rpm
• libgudev1-147-2.41.el6.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-147-2.41.el6.ppc64.rpm
• udev-debuginfo-147-2.41.el6.x86_64.rpm
• udev-debuginfo-147-2.41.el6.i686.rpm
• libgudev1-147-2.41.el6.s390x.rpm
• libudev-devel-147-2.41.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libudev-devel-147-2.41.el6.s390x.rpm
• libudev-147-2.41.el6.s390x.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-147-2.41.el6.ppc.rpm
• udev-debuginfo-147-2.41.el6.s390x.rpm
• libudev-147-2.41.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 784648

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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