Issued:

2014-10-13

Updated:

2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1449 - systemtap bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

systemtap bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated systemtap packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements 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.

The systemtap packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.5-5, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1038692, BZ#1074541)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the kernel added some trace points in a way which failed to expose them to systemtap's search mechanisms. This update extends systemtap's search mechanism to include these extra trace points, thus allowing them to be probed from a systemtap script. (BZ#1020437)

• The SystemTap runtime could attempt to open a file named "trace1" in the current directory rather than the one that was created in the /sys/kernel/debug/systemtap/ directory. As a consequence, SystemTap terminated unexpectedly if such a file existed in the current directory. This update applies a patch to fix this bug and SystemTap now works as expected in the described scenario. (BZ#1027459)

• Previously, it was not entirely clear that names of scripts configured with the SystemTap init script service could contain only alphanumeric characters and the underscore character ("_"). Also, the first character in a name cannot be a number. This update adds this information to the systemtap(8) manual page to prevent any confusion. (BZ#1109084)

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/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• systemtap-devel-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-2.5-5.el6.s390.rpm
• systemtap-devel-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-devel-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-virtguest-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-2.5-5.el6.s390.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-virtguest-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-2.5-5.el6.ppc.rpm
• systemtap-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-2.5-5.el6.src.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-2.5-5.el6.ppc.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-virtguest-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-server-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-server-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-client-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-client-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-server-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-virtguest-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-devel-2.5-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-client-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-2.5-5.el6.i686.rpm
• systemtap-server-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-client-2.5-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-2.5-5.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1095137
• This content is not included.BZ - 1099133
• This content is not included.BZ - 1099472
• This content is not included.BZ - 1099555
• This content is not included.BZ - 1099757
• This content is not included.BZ - 1099791
• This content is not included.BZ - 1099825
• This content is not included.BZ - 1100813
• This content is not included.BZ - 1109084

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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