Fedora 19 Update: lvm2-2.02.98-13.fc19

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-20436
2013-11-01 02:46:17
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Name        : lvm2
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.02.98
Release     : 13.fc19
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2
Summary     : Userland logical volume management tools
Description :
LVM2 includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on
physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc.,
multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, see
losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one
or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes
(kind of logical partitions) in volume groups.

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Update Information:

This update contains fixes for lvm2 lvmetad daemon to prevent races, deadlocks and segfaults that were encountered during its use.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Oct 31 2013 Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha at redhat.com> - 2.02.98-13
- Fix possible race during daemon worker thread creation (lvmetad).
- Fix possible deadlock while clearing lvmetad cache for full rescan.
- Fix possible race while creating/destroying memory pools.
- Fix lvmetad error path in lvmetad_vg_lookup() for null vgname.
* Wed Aug 21 2013 Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha at redhat.com> - 2.02.98-12
- Fix ignored lvmetad update on loop device configuration (2.02.99).
- Fix use of too big chunks of memory when communication with lvmetad.
- Fix dmeventd -V to return value to return success instead of failure.
* Tue Aug  6 2013 Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha at redhat.com> - 2.02.98-11
- Fix metadata area offset/size overflow if it's >= 4g and while using lvmetad.
- Require the newest device-mapper-persistent-data-0.2.3-1.
- Fix spec file's util-linux version definition for proper expansion when used.
* Fri Jul 26 2013 Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha at redhat.com> - 2.02.98-10
- Respect lvmetad global filter in pvscan --cache with a device.
- Fix segfault if devices/global_filter is not specified correctly.
- Use LOG_DEBUG/ERR msg severity instead default for lvm2-activation-generator.
- Do not include /lib/udev and /lib/udev/rules.d in device-mapper package.
- Fix some incorrect changelog dates.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1000894 - [abrt] lvm2-2.02.98-12.fc19: dm_malloc_aux: Process /usr/sbin/lvmetad was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000894
  [ 2 ] Bug #1003654 - Segfault in lvmetad during boot
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003654
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update lvm2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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