Patch: update-is931012 built on 2Oct17-09:14:59 Product: VTL v8.20 Build 9310 Areas Affected: Tape Copy, Export, OST, Utilities Prerequisite: update-is931011 Behavior: Interruptive; stops the server modules if running, copies binaries, and restarts the server modules. Mandatory for: - All new installations - Next time maintenance is performed on existing installations - Servers experiencing issues related to affected areas FIXES: ------ Tape Copy: - Symptom: Bi-directional remote tape copy fails. - Cause: There was a race condition, resulting in servers locking each other and failing both remote tape copy operations. - Resolution: Detect invalid lock requests and return an error in order to release the current remote tape copy session and start a new session. - Severity: Medium - Files: ipstorcomm iscon.fs isscon.fs - References: TS115031 BZ1745 Export: - Symptom: The tape library emulation module fails with a call trace error when canceling an export job. - Cause: There was a memory access violation due to a race condition between job cancellation and data structure initialization. - Resolution: Check memory locations before referring to them. - Severity: Medium - Files: tlecore.ko - References: TS114199 BZ39511 OST: - Symptom: An OST backup request from a Solaris client fails with an open device error. - Cause: The tape rewind command from Solaris was rejected when the special rewind option was enabled on the server. - Resolution: Correctly process regular rewind commands when the special rewind option is enabled. - Severity: Medium - Files: tlecore.ko - References: TS114356 BZ1697 Utilities: - Symptom: The 'vtlcheck' utility fails with a segmentation fault. - Cause: An out-of-boundary condition occurred when there were many tapes in a library. - Resolution: Adapt data structures to avoid out-of-boundary values. - Severity: Low - Files: vtlcheck - References: TS114717 BZ39514