File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.5365
<patchinfo incident="5365">
<issue id="808647" tracker="bnc">DASD(s) won't be re-added automatically to the MD Array after channel path(s) online.</issue>
<issue id="881530" tracker="bnc">[Intel SLES12 Bug] Reshape fails to continue after restart on IMSM RAID array</issue>
<issue id="882634" tracker="bnc">[Intel SLES12 BUG] IMSM RAID volume can be fully assembled with disks attached to different controllers</issue>
<issue id="887773" tracker="bnc">[Intel SLES12 Bug] Reshape freeze at 0% for array-specific migration</issue>
<issue id="923920" tracker="bnc">[MDRAID] Reshape initiation fail</issue>
<issue id="926517" tracker="bnc">[Intel SLES11 SP4 Bug] Mdadm allow to create more IMSM arrays then supported by OROM</issue>
<issue id="926767" tracker="bnc">[Intel SLES11 SP4 Bug] Reshape does not proceed after dirty shutdown</issue>
<issue id="937363" tracker="bnc">One hard disk wrongly detected as a RAID. Impossible to mount NTFS partitions.</issue>
<issue id="939748" tracker="bnc">One hard disk wrongly detected as a RAID. Impossible to mount NTFS with Win7 installation</issue>
<issue id="943028" tracker="bnc">[Intel SLES12SP1 Bug] IMSM RAID: Migration record is not always cleared after successful reshape</issue>
<issue id="953595" tracker="bnc">md_monitor testcase 7 fails with 'Unsufficient head-space for reshape'</issue>
<issue id="956236" tracker="bnc">MD fails to start with multipathed devices on bootup</issue>
<issue id="966773" tracker="bnc">mdadm --stop behavior is inconsistent</issue>
<issue id="974154" tracker="bnc">segfault from mdadm --manage --re-add</issue>
<issue id="1032802" tracker="bnc">mdadm -examine reports a '?' in the array state.</issue>
<issue id="1081910" tracker="bnc">Update mdadm package with more upstream fixes</issue>
<issue id="311379" tracker="fate"/>
<issue id="316335" tracker="fate"/>
<issue id="317456" tracker="fate"/>
<category>recommended</category>
<rating>low</rating>
<packager>colyli</packager>
<description>This update for mdadm provides the backporting of some critical fixes from upstream,
and replace some existing patches with their upstream counterpart (bsc#1081910). The following
fixes are included:
- Grow: Followup fix for a problem that reshape fails to continue after restart on IMSM
RAID array. (bsc#881530)
- mdmon: Ensure Unix domain socket is created with safe permissions. (bsc#1081910)
- IMSM: Add a warning message when assembling a spanned container. (bsc#882634)
- mdmon: Allow prepare_update to report failures. (bsc#1081910)
- DDF, IMSM: Validate metadata_update size before using it. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Do not try to restart if reshape is running. (bsc#887773)
- Grow: Fix a problem that was preventing resize of arrays to 32bit size. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Improve error message if "--grow -n2" is used on linear arrays. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Only fail auto-assemble in face of mdadm.conf conflicts. (bsc#1081910)
- config: Add a new option to suppress adding bad block lists. (bsc#1081910)
- Monitor: Stop monitoring devices that have disappeared. (bsc#1081910)
- super1: Do not allow adding a bitmap if there is no space. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Report when grow needs metadata update. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Fix resizing of array components to greater than 32bits sizes/ (bsc#1081910)
- imsm: Add support for OROMs shared by multiple HBAs. (fate#317456)
- imsm: Add support for second and combined AHCI controllers in UEFI mode. (fate#317456)
- imsm: Add support for NVMe devices. (fate#317456)
- imsm: Add some detail-platform improvements. (fate#317456)
- imsm: Use efivarfs interface for reading UEFI variables. (fate#317456)
- Monitor: Fix a regression with container devices. (bsc#1081910)
- imsm: Simplified the support for multiple OROMs. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Fix "no uptodate device" message. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Allow a RAID4 to assemble easily when parity devices are missing. (bsc#926767)
- Assemble/force: Make it possible to "force" a new device in a reshape. (bsc#1081910)
- IMSM: Count arrays per OROM. (bsc#926517)
- Assemble: Do not check for pre-existing array when updating uuid. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Only warn about incompatible metadata when no fallback available. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Be more careful if the array is stopped during critical section. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Be even more careful about handing a '0' completed value. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Fix problem with --grow --continue. (bsc#1081910)
- Create n bitmaps for clustered mode. (bsc#1081910)
- Add nodes option while creating md. (bsc#1081910)
- Set home-cluster while creating an array. (bsc#1081910)
- Show all bitmaps while examining bitmap. (bsc#1081910)
- Add a new clustered disk. (bsc#1081910)
- Convert a bitmap=none device to clustered. (bsc#1081910)
- Skip clustered devices in incremental. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Add the ability to change cluster name. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Change the number of cluster node. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Ensure stripe_cache is big enough to handle new chunk size. (bsc#1081910)
- Monitor: Don't wait forever on a 'frozen' array. (bsc#1081910)
- Manage/stop: Guard against 'completed' being too large. (bsc#1081910)
- Manage/stop: Don't stop during initial critical section (bsc#1081910)
- raid6check: Report role of suspect device. (bsc#1081910)
- raid6check: Get device ordering correct for syndrome calculation. (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble: Really ensure stripe_cache is bit enough to handle new chunk size.
(bsc#1081910)
- restripe: Fix data block order in raid6_2_data_recov. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Document the --homehost=any functionality. (bsc#1081910)
- mdassemble: Add "Name" definition. (bsc#1081910)
- mdassemble: Do not try to perform cluster check. (bsc#1081910)
- mdassemble: Include mapfile support. (bsc#1081910)
- super1: Do not create bad block log for clustered devices. (bsc#1081910)
- Fix --incremental handling on cluster array. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Make cluster raid also support re-add. (bsc#1081910)
- re-add: Make re-add try to write the sysfs node first. (bsc#1081910)
- Show device as journal in --detail --examine. (bsc#1081910)
- Enable create array with write journal (--write-journal DEVICE). (bsc#1081910)
- Assemble array with write journal. (bsc#1081910)
- Check write journal in incremental. (bsc#1081910)
- Add help message and man entry for --write-journal. (bsc#1081910)
- Add a safeguard against writing to an active device of another node. (bsc#1081910)
- Add crc32c and use it for r5l checksum. (bsc#1081910)
- Make sure 'path' buffer is large enough to fit 200 characters plus null terminator.
(bsc#1081910)
- Recreate journal in mdadm. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Allow cluster raid to also add disk within incremental mode. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Output information more precisely when changing bitmap to none. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Do not show cluster name once the bitmap is cleared. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Do not display bitmap info if it is cleared. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Do not try to hold dlm lock in free_super1. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Improve the safeguard for changing cluster raid's sb. (bsc#1081910)
- Detail: Report correct raid-disk for removed drives. (bsc#1081910)
- Check and remove bitmap first when reshape to raid0. (bsc#1081910)
- Create: Fix a regression in setting raid_disk. (bsc#1081910)
- systemd/mdadm-last-resort: Add Conflicts to .service file. (bsc#1081910)
- super0: Fix reporting of devices between 2GB and 4GB. (bsc#1081910)
- super1: Allow reshape that hasn't really started to be reverted. (bsc#1081910)
- super-intel: Ensure suspended region is removed when reshape completes. (bsc#1081910)
- Fix wrong bitmap output for cluster raid. (bsc#1081910)
- mdadm: Add '--nodes' option in GROW mode. (bsc#1081910)
- Consistent use of metric prefix in manpage. (bsc#1081910)
- Create: Check the node numbers when creating a clustered raid. (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Handle failure to load superblock in Grow_addbitmap(). (bsc#1081910)
- Grow: Simplify error paths in Grow_addbitmap(). (bsc#1081910)
- The sys_name array in the mdinfo structure is 20 bytes of storage (bsc#1081910)
- monitor: Make sure that last_checkpoint is set to 0 after sync. (bsc#1081910)
- Remove: Container should wait for an array to release a drive. (bsc#1081910)
- Fix RAID metadata checking. (bsc#1081910)
- Allow level migration only for single-array container. (bsc#1081910)
- Fix bus error when accessing MBR partition records. (bsc#1081910)
- Add failfast support. (fate#311379)
- mdadm: Add bad block support for external metadata. (bsc#1081910)
- Use disk sector size value to set offset for reading GPT. (bsc#1081910)
- Always return last partition end address in 512B blocks. (bsc#1081910)
- Add detail information when can't connect monitor. (bsc#1081910)
- reshape: Support raid5 grow on certain older kernels. (bsc#923920)
- Assemble: Do not assemble IMSM array without OROM. (bsc#939748, bsc#937363)
- Fix --incremental handling on cluster array.
- IMSM: Clear migration record on disks more often. (bsc#943028)
- mdadm: Remove the cluster-md related information from the documentation. (fate#316335)
- Display timeout status. (fate#311379)
- Retry failed removes. (bsc#808647)
- Detail: Ignore empty inactive arrays. (bsc#966773)
- mdadm: Wait for remove to fix a segmentation fault from mdadm when using --manage --re-add
(bsc#974154)
- udev-md-raid-assembly.rules: Skip multipathed devices. (bsc#956236)
- super1: Fix superblock's max_dev when adding a new disk in linear array. (bsc#1032802)
</description>
<summary>Recommended update for mdadm</summary>
</patchinfo>