RHBA-2013:0497 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.

The updated corosync 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 6.4 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/corosync.html

All users of corosync are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs and add these 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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 - 786735 - totem: Correct nodeid of token when we retransmit it
• BZ - 786737 - Bug when corosync receive JoinMSG in OPERATIONAL state
• BZ - 787789 - cman+corosync get stuck if iptables drop is in place
• BZ - 794744 - corosync doesn't utilize node id from configuration when using Infiniband transport
• BZ - 821352 - Corosync doesn't work with point-to-point connection
• BZ - 824902 - Allow bind to concrete IP (for multiple address with same mask on same iface)
• BZ - 827100 - UDPU mode creates unbind sockets
• BZ - 830799 - Nodes do not agree on CPG membership, messages lost
• BZ - 838524 - Votequorum should register reload callback only once
• BZ - 838743 - [RFE] Enhancement to the Corosync logging for the CPG system
• BZ - 850757 - When flushing, discard only memb_join messages
• BZ - 861032 - Segfault on startup if corosync.conf is wrong
• BZ - 863940 - Don't call sync_* funcs for unloaded services OR currently unloading services
• BZ - 869609 - Segmentation fault in sync_deliver_fn
• BZ - 876908 - corosync-objctl operations return Error reloading DB 11
• BZ - 902397 - Corosync doesn't work with IPv6

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/corosync.html