- Issued:
- 2018-03-19
- Updated:
- 2018-03-19
RHBA-2018:0550 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
openvswitch bug fix and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated openvswitch packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available in the Fast Datapath channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Description
Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.
The openvswitch packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.9.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1023943, BZ#1369362, BZ#1413962, BZ#1449485, BZ#1454753, BZ#1462970, BZ#1468289, BZ#1489465, BZ#1499127, BZ#1501418, BZ#1505776, BZ#1506245, BZ#1510037, BZ#1527156, BZ#1528229, BZ#1529481, BZ#1532719, BZ#1539608, BZ#1545387)
Users of openvswitch are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.
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:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.1 x86_64
- Red Hat Virtualization 4.1 x86_64
- Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1369362 - [RFE] OVN - port migration
- BZ - 1454753 - HW offload support for Open vSwitch
- BZ - 1462970 - need to have the ovs-save utility (and any necessary related files) included in OVS FDB/FDP 2.7
- BZ - 1475436 - [RFE] Update Fast datapath production channel to OVS 2.9 and DPDK 17.11 for RHEL 7.5
- BZ - 1489465 - OVS-dpdk: /var/log/openvswitch has wrong permission when OVS gets changed to 2.8 from < 2.8
- BZ - 1499127 - Qemu and guest will become hang, when starting up network which with vhost-user and iommu backend in guest
- BZ - 1505776 - [ovs]Can't delete tunnel system interface when delete ovs bridge directly
- BZ - 1506245 - Change requires from /usr/bin/sed to /bin/sed
- BZ - 1510037 - Add a command to dump vhost-user internal details.
- BZ - 1528229 - Live migration fails when testing VM with openvswitch multiple pmds and vhost-user single queue
- BZ - 1529481 - Anacron job error about OVN missed files
- BZ - 1532719 - Show DPDK version in OpenvSwitch
- BZ - 1539608 - [ovn]ipv6 dns server works abnormally
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Virtualization 4.1
SRPM | |
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openvswitch-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.src.rpm | SHA-256: 6162626607837794db25db8242463fa5124000b5fa7cf0308154476aeddf62c6 |
x86_64 | |
openvswitch-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 51b2506ceb72bc933b00161abd8af8c52297b3ea2991329195689cf7e6115883 |
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 9622995351131755d866adeb5b038cd56cf967ec264304328cc3eac2d016da31 |
openvswitch-devel-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 6aa8ad920cc92b8dd7244e8f4a361d1023ec074b1aed2393e13d79a3c273ab26 |
openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 88cebf59da3b40049b811f97c25d0a5355571cfe1b797ff11f5d065ed9cc0fab |
openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 12d86172d35b750398106c7a718665a63dbf5c15151a54ccd253aad658417386 |
openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0f8df02e929df0ba8e1266bbac727ef6d410bb813d347bbc5b4ff7fc7f637104 |
python-openvswitch-2.9.0-1.el7fdp.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 3565e94126d5203df218a332ff27563be4e8cda1eb5af1c14b31ae0077bd7085 |
Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.1
SRPM | |
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x86_64 |
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7
SRPM | |
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x86_64 |
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