File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.1500

<patchinfo incident="1500">
  <issue id="939124" tracker="bnc">mdadm  segfaults during --detail</issue>
  <issue id="930417" tracker="bnc">mdadm corrupts DDF meta data anchor</issue>
  <issue id="853944" tracker="bnc">spurious (?) "Started Activate md array even though degraded" msg on boot; checked arrays are not degraded</issue>
  <issue id="952644" tracker="bnc">SLES11SP4: mdadm-3.3.1-5.7 possible regression?  "mdadm /dev/md126 -r failed: Cannot find 8:18: No such file or directory"</issue>
  <issue id="953380" tracker="bnc">md_monitor testcase 8 fails as mdadm cannot add new drive</issue>
  <issue id="953595" tracker="bnc">md_monitor testcase 7 fails with 'Unsufficient head-space for reshape'</issue>
  <issue id="958597" tracker="bnc">Unable to assign hot spare while running IO on Degraded MD Array</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="956236" tracker="bnc">Ignore multipath devices when not yet ready</issue>
  <category>recommended</category>
  <rating>moderate</rating>
  <packager>neilbrown</packager>
  <description>
This update for mdadm fixes the following issues:

- A segmentation fault when a disk is re-added to the system shortly after being
  removed. (bsc#974154)
- A problem when adding a spare disk to a degraded array. (bsc#958597)
- A misleading error code returned by mdadm --detail on inactive arrays. (bsc#966773)
- "Insufficient head-space for reshape" error when attempting to expand array on s390x
  systems. (bsc#953595)
- Message "Starting Activate md array even though degraded..." could be erroneously
  printed at boot time. (bsc#853944)
- A regression in "mdadm /dev/mdXX --remove failed" handling. (bsc#952644)
- A regression when attempting to remove failed devices from an array. (bsc#952644)
- Potential corruption of DDF anchor. (bsc#930417)
- A crash when running --detail on a dm device which contains an md device. (bsc#939124)
- Ignore multipath devices when not yet ready. (bsc#956236)
</description>
  <summary>Recommended update for mdadm</summary>
</patchinfo>