RHBA-2021:1460 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated samba packages that add an enhancement and fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Red Hat Gluster Storage is software only scale-out storage solution that
provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data
storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves
availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.

This advisory adds the following enhancement:

• With this update, caching of SELinux extended attribute (security.selinux) from vfs_glusterfs module in samba is enabled as SELinux extended attribute is part of every file and directory when operating under 'Enforcing' mode and if you fail to include it in the metadata cache it causes an additional delay in listing the directory contents. This improves performance with listing the contents of larger directories. (BZ#1849751)

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, snapshots were not listed as 'Previous versions' in Windows explorer while trying to restore using the 'Properties' tab or 'right-click' menu for directories and entire volumes as shadow_copy2 VFS module in samba failed to open snapshot directories with the necessary flags. With this update, the flags which negate the notion of a read-only filesystem are filtered, thus preserving the required directory open flags. (BZ#1899043)

Users of samba with Red Hat Gluster Storage are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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 Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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