RHBA-2012:1120 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated glusterfs, glusterfs-debuginfo, glusterfs-devel, glusterfs-fuse,
glusterfs-geo-replication, glusterfs-rdma, and glusterfs-server packages
that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Storage 2.0.

Description

Red Hat Storage is software only, scale-out storage that provides flexible
and affordable unstructured data storage for the enterprise.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• When syncing a large number of small files, such as text files or PDFs,

geo-replication was very slow. This led to states where files were not yet
replicated or had bad xtimes, but the storage system showed the status as
OK. (BZ#810080)

• After migrating from Red Hat Storage Software Appliance to Red Hat

Storage, an attempt to run a peer probe for the new instance failed, which
prevented the host from joining the trusted storage pool. (BZ#839397)

• If files were deleted from the master server during a geo-replication

session, the geo-replication session went into a faulty state. (BZ#841855)

• If retrieving an extended attribute failed, the server still set a large

size value for the attribute. A subsequent attempt to retrieve the extended
attribute set the memory request too high for the kernel, which caused a
page allocation failure. (BZ#838195)

• If a file is created when a geo-replication session was in progress and

the use-rsync-xattr option was enabled, that file was not synced to the
slave. (BZ#842366)

All users of Red Hat Storage are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which fix these bugs.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 838195 - glusterfs page allocation failure
• BZ - 839397 - Peer probe of new instance is unsuccessful after the Migration from Old instances(GVSA) to new instances(RHS)
• BZ - 841855 - geo-replication goes faulty on deletion of files on the master .
• BZ - 842366 - Dynamic data is not syncing to slave when use-rsync-xattrs option is used in geo-rep

CVEs

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References

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