RHBA-2011:1516 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cluster and gfs2-utils packages that fix multiple bugs and add various
enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The cluster packages contain the core clustering libraries for Red Hat High
Availability as well as utilities to maintain GFS2 file systems for users of Red
Hat Resilient Storage.

These updated cluster and gfs2-utils packages include numerous bug fixes and
enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory.
Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Technical Notes for
information on the most significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/cluster-and-gfs2-utils.html#RHSA-2011-1516

All users of cluster and gfs2-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which provide numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 663397 - Testing to determine reasonable bounds for token timeout in Clusters
• BZ - 678585 - dlm_controld: fcntl F_SETLKW should be interruptible in GFS2
• BZ - 679080 - fsck.gfs2: segfault in pass1b
• BZ - 679566 - gfs2_edit savemeta doesn't save all leaf blocks for large dirs
• BZ - 680930 - [RFE]: split relaxng schema on a per package base and allow autoupdates on live system
• BZ - 683104 - fsck.gfs2 only rebuilds one missing journal at a time
• BZ - 688370 - Support RHEL HA on VMware with iSCSI based storage + fence_vmware
• BZ - 688371 - Support RHEL HA on VMware with raw disk based storage + fence_scsi
• BZ - 688372 - Support RHEL HA on VMware with raw disk based storage + fence_vmware
• BZ - 688374 - Support RHEL HA on VMware with raw device mapping (physical mapping) based storage + fence_vmware
• BZ - 688375 - Support RHEL HA on VMware with raw device mapping (virtual mapping) based storage + fence_vmware
• BZ - 691400 - Typo about -d option in man page of cman_tool
• BZ - 694823 - gfs2_tool prints UUID in all caps
• BZ - 695795 - Do not ignore 'transport' if 'totem' node exists
• BZ - 702313 - GFS2: [RFE] Add compression to gfs2_edit savemeta/restoremeta
• BZ - 705356 - Nodes fence each other in two nodes cluster without two_node=1
• BZ - 706141 - gfs2 mounts doubled up in mtab
• BZ - 707091 - GFS2: gfs2_grow fails on a full file system
• BZ - 707115 - cluster rebase
• BZ - 719124 - GFS2: tunegfs2 tries to open device when none specified
• BZ - 719126 - GFS2: help and version options are not listed in tunegfs2 usage message
• BZ - 719135 - GFS2: locktable and label setting issues
• BZ - 720668 - GFS2: mkfs.gfs2 doesn't work on regular files
• BZ - 726065 - cman_tool -r version fails to validate cluster.conf file if it contains an ampersand '&'
• BZ - 726777 - RHEL 6.1 Cluster schema included into cman package does not support suborg option for fence_cisco_ucs agent
• BZ - 728230 - cman crashes on startup if cluster name is too long or is not set at all
• BZ - 731775 - dlm: dev_write no op messages when flocks are used my multiple processes
• BZ - 732991 - dlm_controld errors during startup with redundant ring setup
• BZ - 733424 - Relax-NG errors reported after cman_tool join; cman_tool leave is interrupted
• BZ - 735912 - Cman RRP - Include mcast per NIC patch and set default threshold to 3
• BZ - 739682 - configuration example in the dlm_controld man page is not well-formatted

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/cluster-and-gfs2-utils.html#RHSA-2011-1516