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Medium SUSE-RU-2018:0779-1 1 CVE

Recommended update for drbd and drbd-utils

Published Mar 22, 2018 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

This update for drbd and drbd-utils provides the following fixes:

Changes in drbd:

- Fix a possible kernel trace while starting the initial syncing of a stacked drbd.
(bsc#1058770)
- Fix auto promotion after split-brain. (bsc#1074228)
- Support passing '--force' to drbdadm dump-md. (bsc#1077176)
- Many upstream fixes in version 9.0.8 (bsc#1045473):
* Fix a race condition between adding connections and receiving data.
* Fix a OOPS on a diskfull node when a request from a diskless node.
* Fix a distributed deadlock when doing a discard/write-same burst.
* Fix an issue with diskless nodes adopting wrong current UUIDs.
* Fix wrongly rejected two-phase-state transactions.
* Fix initial resync, triggered by '--force primary'.
* Speed-up AL-updates with bio flags REQ_META and REQ_PRIO.
* Merged changes from 8.4.10 and with that compatibility with Linux-4.12.
- The kernel modules were rebuilt with retpoline support to mitigate Spectre v2 (bsc#1068032 CVE-2017-5715)

Changes in drbd-utils:

- Fix the wrong device due to udev change. (bsc#1059566)
- Support passing '--force' to drbdadm dump-md. (bsc#1077176)
- Fix a possible kernel trace while starting the initial syncing of a stacked drbd.
(bsc#1058770)
- Backport some fixes of peer_device objects.
- Do not hardcode loglevel local5 and make it possible to change that using --logfacility.
(bsc#1064402)
- Update documentation and examples regarding fencing: it is now moved from the dir to
the net section. (bsc#1061145)
- Skip running drbdadm sh-b-pri in drbd9. (bsc#1061147)
- Disable quorum in default configuration. (bsc#1032142)
- Fix auto promotion after split-brain. (bsc#1074228)
- Use upstream's RA.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
SUSE · SLES 12 SP2 Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2 drbd 9.0.8+git.c8bc3670-10.8.1
SUSE · SLES 12 SP2 Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP2 drbd-utils 9.0.0-8.15.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032142
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1045473
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1058770
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059566
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061145
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061147
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1064402
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074228
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077176
  • web
    https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715