Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1305 - iprutils bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

iprutils bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated iprutils packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The iprutils packages provide utilities to manage and configure Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) devices that are supported by the ipr SCSI storage device driver.

The iprutils packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.4.5, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. Notably, this update adds support for reporting cache hits on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive, and increases the speed of array creation for an advanced function (AF) direct-access storage device (DASD). (BZ#1148147)

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, the format of firmware files was case sensitive. As a consequence, device attributes were not saved correctly for SIS-64 adapters after updating firmware with the pci.xxx file format. With this update, the firmware format is case insensitive, and device attributes are saved correctly in the described situation. (BZ#1146701)

Users of iprutils 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64

Updated Packages

  • iprutils-2.4.5-1.el6.src.rpm
  • iprutils-debuginfo-2.4.5-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • iprutils-2.4.5-1.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

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References

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Additional information