RHBA-2013:1789 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated e4fsprogs packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The e4fsprogs packages contain a number of utilities for creating, checking,
modifying, and correcting inconsistencies in fourth extended (ext4 and ext4dev)
file systems. e4fsprogs contains e4fsck (used to repair file system
inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke4fs (used to initialize a
partition to contain an empty ext4 file system), tune4fs (used to modify file
system parameters), and most other core ext4fs file system utilities.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the resize4fs utility mishandled the resizing of an ext4 file

system to a smaller size. As a consequence, files containing many extents could
become corrupted if they were moved during the resize process. With this update,
resize4fs now maintains a consistent extent tree when moving files containing
many extents, and such files no longer become corrupted in this scenario.
(BZ#1033548)

Users of e4fsprogs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix this bug.

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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1033548 - [RHEL5] Error : EXT4-fs error (device sda8): ext4_ext_search_left: inode #8126473: (comm db2sysc) ix (60672) != EXT_FIRST_INDEX (0) (depth 1)! leads to DB2 instance to crash

CVEs

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References

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