[El-errata] ELBA-2025-20488 Oracle Linux 9 dtrace bug fix update

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Fri Jul 25 08:48:08 UTC 2025


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2025-20488

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2025-20488.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
dtrace-2.0.3-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-devel-2.0.3-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-testsuite-2.0.3-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
dtrace-2.0.3-1.el9.aarch64.rpm
dtrace-devel-2.0.3-1.el9.aarch64.rpm
dtrace-testsuite-2.0.3-1.el9.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol9/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-2.0.3-1.el9.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.0.3-1]
- This is only released on OL10.
- Redesigned USDT support to work for LTO compilations.  [Orabug: 38011704]
- New builtin variable: execargs.
- Offset probes in pid provider.  (Eugene Loh)
- Various bug fixes.  (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
- Various testsuite fixes and improvements.
  (Nick Alcock, Sam James, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)

[2.0.2-1]
- Translators to support kernels 6.10 and later.
- FBT return probe argument support.
- The print() action is augmented with type information.  (Alan Maguire)
- Support to discover and trace USDT probes after a tracing session has
  started.  (Eugene Loh, Nick Alcock)
- USDT probe argument support (translated types, mapping).  (Nick Alcock)
- Installation locations are now configurable.  (Nick Alcock)
- Valgrind is no longer a required build dependency.  (Nick Alcock)
- Self-grabs have been improved.  (Nick Alcock)
- New provider: rawfbt.  (Kris Van Hees)
- Various bug fixes.  (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Alan Maguire, Kris Van Hees)
- Various testsuite fixes and improvements.
  (Nick Alcock, Sam James, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
- Various code improvements.  (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
  [Orabug: 37274251]

[2.0.1-1]
- Implement FBT probes with fentry/fexit tracepoints
- Provide argument info for FBT probes.
- Provide pre-generated translator files sets. [Orabug: 36504847]

[2.0.0-1.14]
- Implement provider: io.  (Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
- Implement actions: print().  (Alan Maguire)
- Implement subroutines: link_ntop(), cleanpath().  (Eugene Loh)
- Implement options: -xcpu, -xaggpercpu.  (Eugene Loh)
- Improve providers: pid (offset-based probes) and rawtp (arg info).
- Improve options: -xlockmem (improve default).  (Eugene Loh)
- Ensure USDT probes can survive dtprobed restarts.  (Nick Alcock)
- Improve USDT probe creation/deletion.  (Nick Alcock)
- Improve support for DTrace with upstream kernels.  (Nick Alcock)
- Improve support for compiling DTrace in older environments.  (Kris Van Hees)
- Add support for aggregations of stacks.  (Eugene Loh)
- Improve lexer parsing (top-level wildcard ambiguities and numerals).
  (Nick Alcock)
- Fix END probe execution with multiple tracers.  (Nick Alcock)
- Preemptive BPF program execution for DTrace probes is not allowed.
- Buffer overrun fix for systems with non-sequential online CPU ids.
  (Kris Van Hees, Nick Alcock) [Orabug: 36356681]
- Various bug fixes.  (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
- Various testsuite fixes and improvements.
  (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
- Various code improvements.  (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
  [Orabug: 36329725]

[2.0.0-1.13.2]
- Support using DTrace with upstream kernels.
- Implement provider: ip.
- Implement actions: trunc(), pcap().
- Implement subroutines: inet_ntoa6().
- Implement subroutines: inet_ntop(). (Eugene Loh)
- Support modules.builtin.ranges for builtin module-symbol association.
- Provide a BTF-to-CTF convertor to provide (limited) kernel type information
  when CTF is not available.
- Remove dependency on waitfd(). (Nick Alcock)
- Various testsuite fixes and improvements.
  (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
- Various code improvements. (Nick Alcock, Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)




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