RHBA-2015:2178 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated gfs2-utils packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The gfs2-utils packages contain utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in GFS2 global file systems.

The gfs2-utils packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.1.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1184482)

This update also fixes the following bug:

• Previously, when blocks in a corrupt gfs2 file system were mistakenly referenced multiple times by the same file, the fsck.gfs2 utility did not detect or fix the problem. Consequently, the file system remained corrupt. With this update, code has been added to fsck.gfs2 to detect and fix such file system corruption. (BZ#1236669)

Users of gfs2-utils 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.

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

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1153316 - GFS2: fsck.gfs2 requires too much memory on large file systems
• BZ - 1154726 - GFS2: fsck.gfs2 pass2 is reading inodes twice
• BZ - 1162216 - GFS2: improve performance of gfs2_edit savemeta
• BZ - 1165285 - Corrupt system jindex confuses fsck.gfs2
• BZ - 1186515 - GFS2: fsck.gfs2 fixes good directory goal value
• BZ - 1194446 - GFS2: mkfs.gfs2 scalability issue on large devices
• BZ - 1202831 - mkfs.gfs2: Allow longer cluster names
• BZ - 1236669 - fsck.gfs2: Duplicate refs inside one dinode are not fixed

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal