Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0017 - cmirror bug fix update

Synopsis

cmirror bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cmirror packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The cmirror packages provide a user-level utility for managing cluster mirroring. Cmirror is needed for LVM (Logical Volume Manger) based mirroring (RAID1) in a cluster environment.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, requests for information about the health of the log device were processed locally. As a consequence, the cluster mirror daemon could not detect log device failures on remote machines. With this update, the information is requested from the cluster so that log device failures are detected and processed as expected. (BZ#711594)

  • Prior to this update, the cmirror utility could fail to initialize the mirrors correctly when successively activating and deactivating cluster mirrors. As a consequence, any I/O operation to the device and further LVM commands became unresponsive.This update modifies the underlying code so that the problem only occurs after a large number of iterations. (BZ#806919)

All users of cmirror 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.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_645x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_645ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_645ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_645i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI5i386

Updated Packages

  • cmirror-1.1.39-15.el5.ppc.rpm
  • cmirror-1.1.39-15.el5.i386.rpm
  • cmirror-debuginfo-1.1.39-15.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • cmirror-debuginfo-1.1.39-15.el5.i386.rpm
  • cmirror-debuginfo-1.1.39-15.el5.ia64.rpm
  • cmirror-debuginfo-1.1.39-15.el5.ppc.rpm
  • cmirror-1.1.39-15.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • cmirror-1.1.39-15.el5.ia64.rpm
  • cmirror-1.1.39-15.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

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References

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Additional information