RHBA-2022:4840 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated glusterfs packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

Bug fixes:

• Previously, the `crmadmin` command waited forever or for 83 mins instead of timing out at 5 s, and glusterd waited for 2 mins for the setup command to complete before its own timeout. This is because `pacemaker-2.1.x` changed the semantics of the `--timeout` command line parameter for the `crmadmin` utility. The value was an integer that specified a timeout in milliseconds. With this update, the value is time specific, for example, 5 s, and defaults to seconds if the value is an integer. Now, the `crmadmin` command times out after 5 s as it did with the previous version of pacemaker. (BZ#2026833)
• Previously, glusterFS used its own thread based memory pool along with the glibc pool to allocate or deallocate memory blocks. With this update, TCMalloc is used for memory operations to improve the performance across all file operations. Make sure to update the client and the server to get maximum performance benefits. (BZ#2005767)

Users of glusterfs 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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1937314 - [Input/output error] Random IO failure when shrinking distributed dispersed volume while performing IO
• BZ - 2005767 - Perf: Enable tcmalloc and disable mempool as a default option
• BZ - 2005779 - Perf: iobuf: Call standard allocation api in iobuf if page_size is less than equal to 128KB
• BZ - 2006631 - Perf: mem_acct: Make mem_accounting lock free
• BZ - 2015092 - ./tests/bugs/core/bug-1432542-mpx-restart-crash.t is getting crashed
• BZ - 2015937 - Introduce retries option to bind a socket for gluster
• BZ - 2017641 - Intermittent error:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number
• BZ - 2026382 - [Ganesha Packaging][rhel8] Figure out a way to persist the value of boolean "ganesha_use_fusefs" while upgrading packages
• BZ - 2026833 - [Ganesha][RHEL 8.5] HA status is in FAILOVER when configuring NFS ganesha with RHEL 8.5 platform
• BZ - 2054493 - [RHGS 3.5.7 based RHEL8] [INSTALL] Basic glusterfs installation is failing with dependency of gperftools-libs

CVEs

(none)

References

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