RHBA-2014:1450 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The parted packages provide tools to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy
hard disk partitions. The parted program can be used for creating space for new
operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, parted wrongly assumed that a minor number of a device was always

equal to its major number plus its partition number. However, this is not true
with some devices, such as DM multipath devices. As a consequence, operations
with parted on DM multipath devices were failing. With this update, parted
verifies the mount status of a device by the path to the device instead of using
the "minor:major" number. (BZ#1018075)

• The parted program printed an unnecessary warning when used with disks that

had the sector size of 4 KB. With this update, this confusing warning has been
removed from parted. (BZ#929319)

• Previously, the align-check directive did not work correctly when used from

parted in interactive mode. Users had to use parted in script mode in order to
be able to utilize the align-check directive. This update corrects the relevant
code, and align-check now works in interactive mode as expected. (BZ#975478)

• The parted program could fail with an EBUSY error if it was rapidly called in

a loop. To resolve this problem, this update modifies parted to keep retrying
for up to 1 second when receiving an EBUSY error. (BZ#1074069)

• To prevent failures on systems that do not support partitioned loop devices,

such as IBM S/390 systems, the t8000-loop.sh test has been modified to being no
longer run on these systems. (BZ#1139435)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• This update adds support for GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk labels on PreP

partitions on the 64-bit PowerPC architectures. (BZ#1054283)

Users of parted 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/site/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

Fixes

• BZ - 1139435 - t8000-loop.sh fails on s390

CVEs

(none)

References

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