A dtrace bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELBA-2021-9330 Oracle Linux 8 dtrace bug fix update

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-9330

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-9330.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
dtrace-2.0.0-1.6.el8.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-devel-2.0.0-1.6.el8.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-testsuite-2.0.0-1.6.el8.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-2.0.0-1.6.el8.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.0.0-1.6]
- Consolidated developent of newly ported features. [Orabug: 33037106]
- Implement built-in variables: probeprov, probemod, probefunc, probename.
- Implement built-in variables: caller, stackdepth, ucaller, ustackdepth,
errno, walltimestamp. (Eugene Loh)
- Implement actions: stack(), ustack(). (Eugene Loh)
- Implement subroutine: strlen().
- Implement option: -Z (partial). (Eugene Loh)
- Added support for string constants and string values.
- Added support for strings to trace().
- Fixed storage size determination for global and local variables.
- Improved storage layout for global and local variables.
- Mark aggregation actions as non-data recording actions. (Eugene Loh)
- Load string constant table into the 'strtab' BPF map.
- Load probe description data into the 'probes' BPF map.
- Consolidate all string hash functions into a single hash function.
- Implement variable length integer support.
- Store the length of each string as a variable length integer inline with its
character stream.
- Improve memcpy() internal BPF function.
- Testsuite improvements. (Eugene Loh)

[2.0.0-1.5.1]
- Memory corruption fix in pid probe discovery.