SUSE-RU-2013:0747-1: moderate: Recommended update for autofs

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   SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for autofs
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-RU-2013:0747-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #772698 #783651 #787410 #799873 #801808 #802185 
                    #814425 
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2
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   An update that has 7 recommended fixes can now be
   installed. It includes one version update.

Description:


   This collective update for AutoFS provides fixes for the
   following issues:

   * When many volumes are mounted and AutoFS is
   restarted, the stop procedure might not wait long enough
   for all volumes to be unmounted and return failure
   prematurely. (bnc#802185)
   * AutoFS might schedule a new periodic alarm every time
   it receives a SIGHUP (reload) or a SIGUSR1 (force expire)
   signal. These alarms are never deleted and increase the
   number of times the daemon wakes up to run the expiration
   procedure. (bnc#783651)
   * In some configurations, the automount daemon might
   fail to read new entries from the master map after
   receiving a reload signal. (bnc#799873)
   * When a direct mount is broken up into multiple
   sub-mounts and the daemon is reloaded to re-read the new
   configuration, AutoFS might keep a reference to the old
   path and leak one file descriptor. (bnc#772698)
   * In some configurations that use nested sub-mounts, a
   busy volume might prevent AutoFS from expiring other
   mounts. (bnc#801808)
   * The automounter might terminate with a segmentation
   fault when handling multiple mount requests in parallel,
   because the non-reentrant function getprotobyname() has
   been used in multi-threaded contexts. (bnc#787410,
   bnc#814425)


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-autofs-7622

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-autofs-7622

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch sledsp2-autofs-7622

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 5.0.6]:

      autofs-5.0.6-3.8.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 5.0.6]:

      autofs-5.0.6-3.8.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 5.0.6]:

      autofs-5.0.6-3.8.1


References:

   https://bugzilla.novell.com/772698
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/783651
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/787410
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/799873
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/801808
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/802185
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/814425
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=90380f7616a74f03ff9d7c051cc2f2c8