Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1262 - quota bug fix update

Synopsis

quota bug fix update

Type/Severity

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-23.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-23.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • quota-3.17-23.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-23.el6.s390x.rpm
  • quota-3.17-23.el6.s390x.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-23.el6.ppc.rpm
  • quota-3.17-23.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-23.el6.ppc.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-23.el6.i686.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-23.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-23.el6.s390x.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-23.el6.i686.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-23.el6.s390.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-23.el6.s390.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-23.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • quota-3.17-23.el6.i686.rpm
  • quota-3.17-23.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

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References

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Additional information