RHBA-2015:1262 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated quota packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The quota packages contain a suite of system administration tools for monitoring
and limiting user and group disk usage on file systems.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• A regression caused incomplete synchronization of the clustered Global File

System 2 (GFS2). As as consequence, queries for quota limits over the network
timed out. With this update, the algorithm for translating quota values to the
network format has been changed to prevent indefinite cycling in the rpc.rquotad
server. As a result, a file system with negative quota values can no longer make
the remote procedure call quota service unresponsive. (BZ#1007785)

• Previously, the reported disk usage exceeded the file system capacity because

of listing disk usage on a clustered GFS2 file system when a local node was not
fully synchronized. Now, disk usage and quotas are printed as signed numbers to
reflect the fact that negative fluctuations in disk usage accounting do occur in
unsynchronized nodes of clustered file systems. As a result, negative disk usage
values are properly reported. (BZ#1009397)

• Prior to this update, the rpc.quotad server terminated with the "Too many

autofs mount points." error when querying for disk quotas over the network to a
server that has automounted more than 64 file systems. To fix this bug, the code
enumerating automounted file systems has been altered. Now, quota tools
suppressing automounted file systems do not impose any limit on their number.
(BZ#1024097)

Users of quota are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these
bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• 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

CVEs

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References

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