Issued:

2012-10-04

Updated:

2012-10-04

RHBA-2012:1337 - systemtap bug fix update

Synopsis

systemtap bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated systemtap packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

SystemTap is a tracing and probing tool to analyze and monitor activities of the operating system, including the kernel. It provides a wide range of filtering and analysis options.

This update fixes the following bug:

• In previous kernels and versions of systemtap, the nfsd.open probe-alias in the nfsd tapset referred to the "access" parameter, which was later renamed to "may_flags" in the kernel. Consequently, the semantic errors occurred and then the stap command failed to execute. This update lets the nfsd.open probe-alias check under both names for setting the "access" script-level variable, and stap now works as expected in the described scenario. (BZ#859832)

All users of systemtap are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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

• systemtap-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-grapher-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-grapher-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-1.7-5.el6_3.1.src.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-grapher-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.7-5.el6_3.1.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.7-5.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.7-5.el6_3.1.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-grapher-1.7-5.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

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References

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