RHBA-2009:0087 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated gfs2-utils packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Description

The gfs2-utils packages provide the user-space tools necessary to mount,
create, maintain and test GFS2 file systems.

The updated gfs2-utils packages apply the following bug fixes:

• gfs2_tool counters has been removed (same information can be found in

/proc/slabinfo.

• gfs2 utilities have been updated to use the new gfs2meta fs.
• mkfs.gfs2 no longer will mkfs on a mounted filesystem.
• gfs2_fsck now properly handles extended attribute blocks.
• gfs2_edit has been update to better deal with non-4k blocksizes and other

issues.

• mkfs.gfs2 now supports a command-line option to specify the filesystem size.
• gfs2_fsck will now run on gfs2 filesystems without a 4k block size.
• gfs2_fsck no longer causes a segmentation fault after adding extended

attributes to a file system.

• gfs2_edit is now able to properly save the metadata of a GFS filesystem.
• gfs2_convert now properly takes into account the indirect blocks in a GFS

filesystem.

• The gfs2 utilities can now properly determine if a GFS2 filesystem is

already mounted.

All users of gfs2-utils should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 240584 - mkfs.gfs2 happily mkfs's a mounted filesystem
• BZ - 404611 - GFS2: gfs2_fsck dupl. blocks between EA and data
• BZ - 438759 - gfs2_tool: 'counters' command calls unimplemented counters
• BZ - 450004 - GFS2: gfs2_edit fixes for 5.3
• BZ - 450764 - RFE: GFS2: mkfs.gfs2 should have an optional fs size parm
• BZ - 452743 - GFS2: gfs2_fsck fails: Unable to read in jindex inode.
• BZ - 459630 - GFS2: changes needed to gfs2-utils due to gfs2meta fs changes in bz 457798
• BZ - 460327 - GFS2: fsck complains about ondisk status 2 in pass 5
• BZ - 461290 - GFS2: mount during fsck protections not working
• BZ - 463588 - GFS2: gfs2_fsck segfaults when extended attributes are on the file system
• BZ - 471239 - GFS2: gfs2_edit savemeta doesn't work with GFS
• BZ - 471618 - GFS2: gfs2_convert is broken

CVEs

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References

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