infoscale-rhel7_x86_64-Patch-7.4.0.1100
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The latest patch(es) : infoscale-rhel7_x86_64-Patch-7.4.0.1300 

 Basic information
Release type: Patch
Release date: 2018-07-23
OS update support: None
Technote: None
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Checksum: 1868644016

 Applies to one or more of the following products:
InfoScale Availability 7.4 On RHEL7 x86-64
InfoScale Enterprise 7.4 On RHEL7 x86-64
InfoScale Foundation 7.4 On RHEL7 x86-64
InfoScale Storage 7.4 On RHEL7 x86-64

 Obsolete patches, incompatibilities, superseded patches, or other requirements:

This patch is obsolete. It is superseded by: Release date
infoscale-rhel7_x86_64-Patch-7.4.0.1200 (obsolete) 2018-12-20

 Fixes the following incidents:
3941045, 3946809, 3947645, 3948761, 3949322, 3949500, 3949506, 3949507, 3949508, 3949509, 3949510, 3950578, 3950740, 3950760, 3950799, 3951488, 3952340, 3953235

 Patch ID:
VRTSllt-7.4.0.1200-RHEL7
VRTSvcsag-7.4.0.1100-RHEL7
VRTSvxvm-7.4.0.1200-RHEL7
VRTSvxfs-7.4.0.1200-RHEL7
VRTSodm-7.4.0.1200-RHEL7

Readme file
                          * * * READ ME * * *
                       * * * InfoScale 7.4 * * *
                         * * * Patch 1100 * * *
                         Patch Date: 2018-07-02


This document provides the following information:

   * PATCH NAME
   * OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED BY THE PATCH
   * PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH
   * BASE PRODUCT VERSIONS FOR THE PATCH
   * SUMMARY OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
   * DETAILS OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
   * INSTALLATION PRE-REQUISITES
   * INSTALLING THE PATCH
   * REMOVING THE PATCH


PATCH NAME
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InfoScale 7.4 Patch 1100


OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED BY THE PATCH
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RHEL7 x86-64


PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH
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VRTSllt
VRTSodm
VRTSvcsag
VRTSvxfs
VRTSvxvm


BASE PRODUCT VERSIONS FOR THE PATCH
-----------------------------------
   * InfoScale Availability 7.4
   * InfoScale Enterprise 7.4
   * InfoScale Foundation 7.4
   * InfoScale Storage 7.4


SUMMARY OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
---------------------------------------
Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.0.1200
* 3953235 (3953233) After installing the 7.4.0.1100 (on AIX and Solaris) and 7.4.0.1200 (on Linux)
patch, the Oracle Disk Management (ODM) module fails to load.
Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.0.1100
* 3941045 (3951912) Samba and NetBios are not systemd compliant.
* 3946809 (3952179) VMwareDisks agent does not support IPv6.
* 3947645 (3947643) VCS Samba Server Agent now uses the Interfaces
attribute to
support listening on multiple IP addresses and network interfaces.
Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.0.1200
* 3948761 (3948507) If RDMA dependencies are not fulfilled by the setup, the LLT
init/systemctl script should load the non-RDMA module.
Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.0.1200
* 3949322 (3944259) The vradmin verifydata and vradmin ibc commands fail on private diskgroups
with Lost connection error.
* 3950578 (3953241) Messages in syslog are seen with message string "0000" for VxVM module.
* 3950760 (3946217) In a scenario where encryption over wire is enabled and secondary logging is
disabled, vxconfigd hangs and replication does not progress.
* 3950799 (3950384) In a scenario where volume encryption at rest is enabled, data corruption may
occur if the file system size exceeds 1TB.
* 3951488 (3950759) The application I/Os hang if the volume-level I/O shipping is enabled and 
the
volume layout is mirror-concat or mirror-stripe.
Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.0.1200
* 3949500 (3949308) In a scenario where FEL caching is enabled, application I/O on a file does not
proceed when file system utilization is 100%.
* 3949506 (3949501) When SmartIO FEL-based writeback caching is enabled, the "sfcache offline"
command hangs during Inode deinit.
* 3949507 (3949502) When SmartIO FEL-based writeback caching is enabled, memory leak of few bytes
may happen during node reconfiguration.
* 3949508 (3949503) When FEL is enabled in CFS environment, data corruption may occur after node
recovery.
* 3949509 (3949504) When SmartIO FEL-based writeback caching is enabled, memory leak of few bytes
may happen during node reconfiguration.
* 3949510 (3949505) When SmartIO FEL-based writeback caching is enabled, I/O operations on a file in
filesystem can result in panic after cluster reconfiguration.
* 3950740 (3953165) Messages in syslog are seen with message string "0000" for VxFS module.
* 3952340 (3953148) Due to space reservation mechanism, extent delegation deficit may be seen on a node, although it may not be 
using any feature involving space reservation mechanism like CFS Delayed allocation/FEL.


DETAILS OF INCIDENTS FIXED BY THE PATCH
---------------------------------------
This patch fixes the following incidents:

Patch ID: VRTSodm-7.4.0.1200

* 3953235 (Tracking ID: 3953233)

SYMPTOM:
After installing the 7.4.0.1100 (on AIX and Solaris) and 7.4.0.1200 (on Linux)
patch, the Oracle Disk Management (ODM) module fails to load.

DESCRIPTION:
As part of the 7.4.0.1100 (on AIX and Solaris) and 7.4.0.1200 (on Linux) patch,
the VxFS version has been updated to 7.4.0.1200.
Because of the VxFS version update, the ODM module needs to be repackaged due to an
internal dependency on VxFS version.

RESOLUTION:
As part of this fix, the ODM module has been repackaged to support the updated
VxFS version.

Patch ID: VRTSvcsag-7.4.0.1100

* 3941045 (Tracking ID: 3951912)

SYMPTOM:
Samba and Netbios services status appear as failed, even though VCS
has successfully started these services on  systemd compliant machines.

DESCRIPTION:
The systemctl status command displays the status of Samba and
NetBios services as failed, even though VCS has successfully started these
services. This issue occurs because the Samba and NetBios agents are not systemd
complaint.

RESOLUTION:
Samba and NetBios agents are made systemd compliant. The systemctl
command now displays the correct state of the services.

* 3946809 (Tracking ID: 3952179)

SYMPTOM:
VMwareDisks agent fails to move to online state when an IPv6 address is
mentioned in its resource configuration.

DESCRIPTION:
If the IPv6 address of an ESXi or vCenter server is mentioned in a
VMwareDiskss 
resource configuration, the VMwareDisks resource moves to an UNKNOWN state. This
issue occurs because the VMwareDisks agent fails to parse the IPv6 address format.

RESOLUTION:
VMwareDisks agent now supports both types of IP addresses 
(IPv4 & IPv6) and host names in its resource configuration. 
Note that the IPv6 addresses must be mentioned within square brackets [].

For example:
VMwareDisks vmdk_res (
   ...
   ESXDetails = { "[2620:128:f0a2:900d::150]" = "root=GMIsMUlSKsNSlSLuJUo" }
   HAInfoDetails =  { "[2001::15]" = "Administrator@IAG=JPLvPXoVNvQVo" }
)

* 3947645 (Tracking ID: 3947643)

SYMPTOM:
VCS Samba Server Agent can only listen on a single IP address when the
SocketAddress attribute is used in the VCS configuration file.

DESCRIPTION:
The SocketAddress attribute allows using only one IP
address. Moreover, Samba 4 and later versions do not support SocketAddress.
In such cases, the Interfaces and BindInterfaceOnly attributes must
be used,
instead of the SocketAddress attribute.

RESOLUTION:
The Samba Server Agent now supports the Interfaces and
BindInterfaceOnly attributes. This enables the agent to listen on all
interfaces strings supported by Samba. 

Details of these attributes and the values they can take are as follows:

- Interfaces: This attribute allows you to override the default network
interfaces list that Samba will use for browsing. This attribute accepts a list
of all strings supported by Samba, which can be in any of the following formats:

     - a network interface name (such as eth0). This may include shell-like
wildcards so eth* will match any interface starting with the substring "eth"
     - an IP address. In this case the netmask is determined from the list of
interfaces obtained from the kernel
     - an IP/mask pair
     - a broadcast/mask pair
 Note that if you have configured Interfaces in a Samba Server Agent you
cannot configure NetBIOS, because NetBIOS does not support IPv6 name resolution.

- BindInterfaceOnly: This global parameter allows the Samba admin to limit what
interfaces on a machine will serve SMB requests. If BindInterfaceOnly attribute
is set to 1, only then samba listens on the Interfaces attribute. The default
value of this attribute is "0". For more details on these attributes please
refer the Samba man pages.

For example:
SambaServer sambaserver_res(
...
Interfaces = { "10.209.74.98", "eth*", "eth0", "10.209.74.98/16"}
BindInterfaceOnly = 1
)

Patch ID: VRTSllt-7.4.0.1200

* 3948761 (Tracking ID: 3948507)

SYMPTOM:
LLT loads the RDMA module during its configuration, even if RDMA
dependencies are not fulfilled by the setup.

DESCRIPTION:
LLT loads the RDMA module during its configuration, even if RDMA
dependencies are not fulfilled by the setup.

Moreover, the user is unable to manually unload the IB modules. This issue
occurs because the LLT_RDMA module holds a use count on the ib_core module even
though LLT is not configured to work over RDMA.

RESOLUTION:
LLT now loads the non-RDMA module if RDMA dependency fails during
configuration.

Patch ID: VRTSvxvm-7.4.0.1200

* 3949322 (Tracking ID: 3944259)

SYMPTOM:
The vradmin verifydata and vradmin ibc commands fail on private diskgroups
with Lost connection error.

DESCRIPTION:
This issue occurs because of a deadlock between the IBC mechanism and the
ongoing I/Os on the secondary RVG. IBC mechanism expects I/O transfer to
secondary in a sequential order, however to improve performance I/Os are now
written in parallel. The mismatch in IBC behavior causes a deadlock and the
vradmin verifydata and vradmin ibc fail due to time out error.

RESOLUTION:
As a part of this fix, IBC behavior is now improved such that it now considers
parallel and possible out-of-sequence I/O writes to the secondary.

* 3950578 (Tracking ID: 3953241)

SYMPTOM:
Customer may get generic message or warning in syslog with string as "vxvm:0000:
<msg>" instead of uniquely 
numbered message id for VxVM module.

DESCRIPTION:
Few syslog messages introduced in InfoScale 7.4 release were not given unique 
message number to identify 
correct places in the product where they are originated. Instead they are marked 
with common message 
identification number "0000".

RESOLUTION:
This patch fixes syslog messages generated by VxVM module, containing "0000" as 
the message string and 
provides them with a unique numbering.

* 3950760 (Tracking ID: 3946217)

SYMPTOM:
In a scenario where encryption over wire is enabled and secondary logging is
disabled, vxconfigd hangs and replication does not progress.

DESCRIPTION:
In a scenario where encryption over wire is enabled and secondary logging is
disabled, the application I/Os are encrypted in a sequence, but are not written
to the secondary in the same order. The out-of-sequence and in-sequence I/Os are
stuck in a loop, waiting for each other to complete. Due to this, I/Os are left
incomplete and eventually hang. As a result, the vxconfigd hangs and the
replication does not progress.

RESOLUTION:
As a part of this fix, the I/O encryption and write sequence is improved such
that all I/Os are first encrypted and then sequentially written to the
secondary.

* 3950799 (Tracking ID: 3950384)

SYMPTOM:
In a scenario where volume data encryption at rest is enabled, data corruption
may occur if the file system size exceeds 1TB and the data is located in a file
extent which has an extent size bigger than 256KB.

DESCRIPTION:
In a scenario where data encryption at rest is enabled, data corruption may
occur when both the following cases are satisfied:
- File system size is over 1TB
- The data is located in a file extent which has an extent size bigger than 256KB
This issue occurs due to a bug which causes an integer overflow for the offset.

RESOLUTION:
As a part of this fix, appropriate code changes have been made to improve data
encryption behavior such that the data corruption does not occur.

* 3951488 (Tracking ID: 3950759)

SYMPTOM:
The application I/Os hang if the volume-level I/O shipping is enabled and 
the
volume layout is mirror-concat or mirror-stripe.

DESCRIPTION:
In a scenario where an application I/O is issued over a volume that has
volume-level I/O shipping enabled, the I/O is shipped to all target nodes.
Typically, on the target nodes, the I/O must be sent only to the local disk.
However, in case of mirror-concat or mirror-stripe volumes, I/Os are

sent to
remote disks as well. This at times leads in to an I/O hang.

RESOLUTION:
As a part of this fix, I/O once shipped to the target node is restricted to 
only
locally connected disks and remote disks are skipped.

Patch ID: VRTSvxfs-7.4.0.1200

* 3949500 (Tracking ID: 3949308)

SYMPTOM:
In a scenario where FEL caching is enabled, application I/O on a file does not
proceed when file system utilization is 100%.

DESCRIPTION:
When file system capacity is utilized 100%, application I/O on a file does not
proceed. This issue occurs because the ENOSPC error handling code path tries to
take the Inode ownership lock which is already held by the current thread. As a
result, any operation on that file hangs.

RESOLUTION:
This fix releases the Inode ownership lock and reclaims it after ENOSPC error
handling is complete.

* 3949506 (Tracking ID: 3949501)

SYMPTOM:
The sfcache offline command hangs.

DESCRIPTION:
During Inode inactivation, Inode with FEL dirty flag set gets included in the
cluster-wide inactive list instead of the local inactive list. This issue occurs
due to an internal error.
As a result, the FEL dirty flag does not get cleared and the "sfcache offline"
command hangs.

RESOLUTION:
This fix now includes the Inodes with FEL dirty flag in a local inactive list.

* 3949507 (Tracking ID: 3949502)

SYMPTOM:
When SmartIO FEL-based writeback caching is enabled, memory leak of few bytes
may happen during node reconfiguration.

DESCRIPTION:
FEL recovery is initiated during node reconfiguration during which some internal
data structure remains held. Due to this extra hold, the data structures are not
freed, which leads to small memory leak.

RESOLUTION:
This fix now ensures that the hold on the data structure is handled correctly.

* 3949508 (Tracking ID: 3949503)

SYMPTOM:
When FEL is enabled in CFS environment, after a node crash, stale data may be
seen on a file.

DESCRIPTION:
While revoking RWlock after node recovery, the file system ensures that the FEL
writes are flushed to the disks and a write completion record is written in FEL
log. 
In scenarios where a node crashes and the write completion record is not
updated, FEL writes get replayed during FEL recovery. This may overwrite the
writes that may have happened after the revoke, on some other cluster node,
resulting in data corruption.

RESOLUTION:
This fix now writes the completion record after FEL write flush.

* 3949509 (Tracking ID: 3949504)

SYMPTOM:
When SmartIO FEL-based writeback caching is enabled, memory leak of few bytes
may happen during node reconfiguration.

DESCRIPTION:
FEL recovery is initiated during node reconfiguration during which some internal
data structure remains held. Due to this extra hold, the data structures are not
freed that leads to small memory leak.

RESOLUTION:
This fix now ensures that the hold on the data structure is handled correctly.

* 3949510 (Tracking ID: 3949505)

SYMPTOM:
When SmartIO FEL-based writeback caching is enabled, I/O operations on a file in
filesystem can result in panic after cluster reconfiguration.

DESCRIPTION:
In an FEL environment, the file system may get mounted after a node recovery,
but the FEL device may remain offline. In such a scenario, the FEL related data
structures remain inaccessible and the node panics during an application I/O
that attempts to access the FEL related data structures.

RESOLUTION:
This fix checks whether the FEL device recovery has completed before accessing
the FEL related data structures.

* 3950740 (Tracking ID: 3953165)

SYMPTOM:
Customer may get generic message or warning in syslog with string as "vxfs:0000:<msg>" instead of uniquely 
numbered message id for VxFS module.

DESCRIPTION:
Few syslog messages introduced in InfoScale 7.4 release were not given unique message number to identify 
correct places in the product where they are originated. Instead they are marked with common message 
identification number "0000".

RESOLUTION:
This patch fixes syslog messages generated by VxFS module, containing "0000" as the message string and 
provides them with a unique numbering.

* 3952340 (Tracking ID: 3953148)

SYMPTOM:
Extra extent delegation messages exchanges may be noticed between delegation master and delegation 
client.

DESCRIPTION:
If a node is not using delayed allocation or SmartIO based write back cache (Front
allocation unit is being revoked 
delegation deficit. This is not correct as node is not using delayed allocation/FEL.

RESOLUTION:
Fix is to ignore delegation deficit if deficit is on account of non-delayed allocation/non-FEL allocation.



INSTALLING THE PATCH
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Run the Installer script to automatically install the patch:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Please be noted that the installation of this P-Patch will cause downtime.

To install the patch perform the following steps on at least one node in the cluster:
1. Copy the patch infoscale-rhel7_x86_64-Patch-7.4.0.1100.tar.gz to /tmp
2. Untar infoscale-rhel7_x86_64-Patch-7.4.0.1100.tar.gz to /tmp/hf
    # mkdir /tmp/hf
    # cd /tmp/hf
    # gunzip /tmp/infoscale-rhel7_x86_64-Patch-7.4.0.1100.tar.gz
    # tar xf /tmp/infoscale-rhel7_x86_64-Patch-7.4.0.1100.tar
3. Install the hotfix(Please be noted that the installation of this P-Patch will cause downtime.)
    # pwd /tmp/hf
    # ./installVRTSinfoscale740P1100 [<host1> <host2>...]

You can also install this patch together with 7.4 base release using Install Bundles
1. Download this patch and extract it to a directory
2. Change to the Veritas InfoScale 7.4 directory and invoke the installer script
   with -patch_path option where -patch_path should point to the patch directory
    # ./installer -patch_path [<path to this patch>] [<host1> <host2>...]

Install the patch manually:
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Manual installation is not recommended.


REMOVING THE PATCH
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Manual uninstallation is not recommended.


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