File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.9206
<patchinfo incident="9206">
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1110425">Revert ndctl v62 to v61.2</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1107113">libndctl-devel: Incorrect version reported by pkg-config</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1120931">ndctl-monitor.service doesn't start</issue>
<issue tracker="fate" id="326529"/>
<issue tracker="fate" id="325527"/>
<issue tracker="fate" id="326732"/>
<issue tracker="fate" id="326817"/>
<category>recommended</category>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<packager>morbidrsa</packager>
<description>
This update provides version 63 of ndctl and brings many fixes and improvements:
- Use Type=simple instead of Type=forking for service (bsc#1120931)
- Enable ppc64le build (FATE#326817)
- Drop 'v' from pkgconfig-version (breaks 'ipmctl'). (bsc#1107113, FATE#325527)
- ars: Don't invalidate the user-provided command.
- autoconf: Include sys/mman.h for MAP_SYNC.
- bash-completion: Add completion for ndctl-monitor.
- build: Introduce --with-{bash,systemd}.
- check-labels: Correct check-labels message wording.
- configure: Add -Wunused-result and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 to cflags.
- contrib/do_abidiff: Make the build more robust.
- contrib: Add helper scripts for new release.
- destroy-namespace: Check for an already-zeroed info block.
- documentation/create-namespace: Clarify fsdax wording.
- documentation: Add a newline in namespace Theory of Operations.
- documentation: Add asciidoctor-extensions.rb to .gitignore.
- documentation: Add inject-smart to the Makefile.
- documentation: Add man page for monitor.
- documentation: Add namespace 'theory of operation'.
- documentation: Add the support for asciidoctor.
- documentation: Clarify the dimm id for ndctl list d option.
- documentation: Document the label-version option for init-labels.
- documentation: Fix title and section markers
- documentation: Use asciidoctor by default.
- filter: Fix "keyword 'all' is ignored" in util_<obj>_filter().
- filter: Refacor util_<obj>_filter() to support multiple space-seperated arguments.
- inject-error: Add a --saturate option.
- inject-smart: Add an interface to inject ctrl-temperature.
- inject-smart: Add an option to uninject smart fields.
- inject-smart: Continue in spite of errors for uninject-all.
- inject-smart: Fix man page to match the current behavior.
- inject: Fix a resource leak in ndctl_namespace_get_clear_unit.
- intel: Fallback to smart cached shutdown_count.
- lib: Add APIs for retrieving namespace badblocks.
- lib: Add dirty-shutdown-count retrieval helper.
- lib: Refactor badblocks retrieval routines.
- libndctl/ars: Add an API to retrieve clear_err_unit.
- libndctl/inject: Add 'v2' APIs for inject and uninject.
- libndctl/inject: Inject fewer bytes per block by default.
- libndctl/test: Fix a couple of unchecked returns.
- libndctl: Fix a resource leak in ndctl_dimm_get_{{event_}flags, health}.
- libndctl: Fix potential buffer overflow in write_cache APIs.
- libndctl: Fix the uninject-error API actually injecting errors.
- libndctl: Improve debug prints in wait_for_scrub_completion.
- libndctl: Set errno for routines that don't return an error status.
- list: Add alarm_enable_<field> to list.
- list: Add controller temperature threshold and alarm.
- list: Add controller temperature.
- list: Always output array without --human.
- list: Display the 'map' location in listings.
- list: Fix the verbosity level formatting in the man page.
- monitor: Add [--verbose] option to emit extra debug messages.
- monitor: Add [Install] Section to systemd unit file of ndctl-monitor.
- monitor: Add a config-file section to the man page.
- monitor: Add a new command - monitor.
- monitor: Add main ndctl monitor configuration file.
- monitor: Add the unit file of systemd for ndctl-monitor service.
- monitor: Add timestamp and pid to log messages in log_file().
- monitor: Fix a resource leak in parse_monitor_event.
- monitor: Fix duplicate prefix in monitor.log.
- monitor: Fix formatting for --log in the man page.
- monitor: Fix memory leak in monitor_event.
- monitor: Fix memory leak in read_config_file.
- monitor: Fix the lack of detection of invalid dimm-events.
- monitor: Fix the lack of detection of invalid path of log file.
- monitor: Fix the severity of "daemon started" message.
- monitor: Improve error reporting throughout monitor.c.
- monitor: In daemon mode, exit successfully if no DIMMs are found.
- monitor: Set default log destination to syslog if "--daemon" is specified.
- namespace: Rework namespace action accounting.
- ndctl: Add 'list' verbose options.
- ndctl: Add CONTRIBUTING.md.
- ndctl: Add a test file to .gitignore.
- ndctl: Add an API to check support for smart injection.
- ndctl: Add an api for getting the ars_status overflow flag.
- ndctl: Autoconf detect BUS_MCEERR_AR.
- ndctl: Create ndctl udev rules for dirty shutdown.
- ndctl: Deprecate undocumented short-options.
- ndctl: Fix ABI breakage due to rename of fw_info_get_updated_version.
- ndctl: Fix a resource leak in submit_get_firmware_info.
- ndctl: Fix libtool versioning.
- ndctl: Fix potential null dereference in the smart error handler.
- ndctl: Hide null uuids.
- ndctl: Refactor validation of the ars_status command.
- ndctl: Remove dependency on linker garbage collection.
- ndctl: Remove warnings when -O0 is used with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
- ndctl: Revert "ndctl, intel: Fallback to smart cached shutdown_count".
- ndctl: Revert "ndctl: Create ndctl udev rules for dirty shutdown".
- ndctl: Simplify JSON print flag handling.
- ndctl: Suppress command errors if fallback exists.
- ndctl: Update README.md for code blocks.
- ndctl: Use max_available_extent for namespace.
- ndctl: Warn on variables declared after statement.
- ndctl: Work around kernel memory corruption.
- prepare-release.sh: Fix revision update checks.
- spec: Use pkgconfig for systemd.
- test/monitor: Fix inject-smart field in test_filter_dimmevent.
- test: Add NFIT_TEST_BUS[01] variable and some helper funtions to common.
- test: Add UUID_LIBS for list_smart_dimm.
- test: Add a MADV_HWPOISON test.
- test: Add a new unit test for max_available_extent namespace.
- test: Add a new unit test for monitor.
- test: Add a new unit test pfn metadata error clearing.
- test: Add common helper functions for test scripts.
- test: Add device-dax MADV_HWPOISON test.
- test: Add start/wait scrub to injection tests.
- test: Check availability of MAP_SYNC for poison test.
- test: Cleanup test scripts.
- test: Convert remaining tests to use test/common.
- test: Disable poison tests for now.
- test: Fix a potential null pointer dereference in 'ndctl test'.
- test: Fix a resource leak in check_smart_threshold.
- test: Fix dax.sh return code.
- test: Fix sector-mode.sh to work with label support.
- test: Fix tests for the array vs object listing fix.
- test: Fix timeouts in device-dax.
- test: Remove an unused variable assignment.
- test: Remove the firmware image file before the test end.
- test: Update libndctl test for controller temperature valid.
- test: Update tests for capacity vs namespace-label locking.
- tests: Add a new unit test for inject-smart.
- udev: Fix a resource leak in save_unsafe_shutdown_count.
- util/json: Add a util_namespace_badblocks_to_json() helper.
- util/json: Add comments around re-checking the UTIL_JSON_MEDIA_ERRORS flag.
- util/json: Fix an error check for region resource.
- util/strbuf.h: Include sys/types.h for ssize_t definition.
- util: Add OPTION_FILENAME to parse_opt_type.
</description>
<summary>Recommended update for ndctl</summary>
</patchinfo>
