RHBA-2013:0481 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The xfsprogs packages contain a set of commands to use the XFS file system,
including the mkfs.xfs command to construct an XFS system.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• When the manual geometry of the mkfs.xfs utility was specified for striping as

well as calculating of the allocation group counts and size, mkfs.xfs could emit
confusing error messages on failure. With this update, more standardized and
informative error messages are returned. (BZ#730433)

• When the sector size was not specified by the "-f" option, the mkfs.xfs

utility used the 512 byte sector size by default even for drives with 4 Kb
physical sectors. With this update, mkfs.xfs correctly recognizes the sector
size in the described scenario, which fixes this bug. (BZ#836433)

• When attempting to set a 32-bit quota project ID on an XFS file system which

did not have this feature enabled, the command returned success, but truncated
the project ID to the lower 16 bits. With this update, a project ID of more than
16 bits cannot be set unless the 32-bit project ID feature is enabled.
(BZ#878859)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• With this update, mkfs.xfs can enable 32-bit project quota IDs on a file

system with the "-i projid32bit=1" parameter specified. Without this parameter,
mkfs.xfs defaults to 16-bit project quota IDs. The 32-bit project quota IDs can
be enabled on existing file systems by using the "xfs_admin -p" command.
(BZ#827186)

All users who use the XFS file system 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 Scalable File System (for RHEL Server) 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (for RHEL Workstation) 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (for RHEL Compute Node) 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 730433 - Error message when allocation group size too big is misleading
• BZ - 836433 - xfstests 279: mkfs.xfs: properly handle physical sector size
• BZ - 878859 - [xfs/projid32bit] Setting projid32bit that is higher than 32-bit succeeds

CVEs

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References

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