RHBA-2016:1950 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated vdsm packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

VDSM is a management module that serves as a Red Hat Virtualization Manager agent on Red Hat Virtualization Host or Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts.

Changes to the vdsm component:

• This update fixes a error in the monitoring code that caused the VDSM to incorrectly report that a QEMU process has recovered and is responsive after being unavailable for a short amount of time, while it was actually unresponsive. (BZ#1360990)
• This update fixes an issue in the monitoring code which caused the VDSM to fail to detect that a stuck QEMU process has become responsive. (BZ#1364924)

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 Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1360990 - [z-stream clone - 4.0.4] VMs are not reported as non-responding even though qemu process does not responds.
• BZ - 1364924 - VMs flip to non-responsive state for ever.

CVEs

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References

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