RHBA-2013:0452 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated libcgroup packages that fix several bugs and add one enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The libcgroup packages provide tools and libraries to control and monitor
control groups.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the cgrulesengd daemon ignored the "--sticky" option of the cgexec

command and, as a consequence, moved a process to another cgroup when the
process called the setuid() or setgid() functions even if the process had to be
stuck to the current cgroup. This bug is now fixed and the cgrulesengd daemon
now checks whether the process is "sticky" or not when the process calls setuid
or setgid. (BZ#773544)

• Previously, the lscgroup command dropped the first character of a path unless

prefixed with a slash, which led to lscgroup generating invalid paths. This bug
is now fixed and the generated paths are now correct. (BZ#819137)

• Previously, adding a cgroup after the cgrulesengd daemon had started did not

work. As a consequence, if a directory was created after cgrulesengd was already
started, any /etc/cgrules.conf configuration for that directory would not be
processed. With this update, a routine has been added to scan the cgrules.conf
file and move matching running tasks in the /proc/pid/ directory into configured
cgroups. This new routine is called at init time and also after inotify events
on cgroups. With this update, a routine has been added to scan the cgrules.conf
file and move matching running tasks into configured cgroups. (BZ#849757)

• Previously, the cgconfig service was not working properly with read-only file

systems. As a consequence, cgconfig was not able to start with the default
configuration on a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor system. This
update adds a check for the read-only file systems to the cgconfig service and
it now works as expected with the default configuration on Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor systems. (BZ#869990)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• This update improves the logging facility and error messages generated by

libcgroup. (BZ#738737)

Users of libcgroup are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add this enhancement.

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 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 819137 - lscgroup drops first character of path unless prefixed with slash
• BZ - 869990 - [RHEV-H 6.4]cgconfig does not start with default configuration on RHEV-H.

CVEs

(none)

References

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