RHBA-2017:1593 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated OpenStack Object Storage packages that resolve various issues are
now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) for RHEL 7.

Description

Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building, deploying
and monitoring a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud
running on commonly available physical hardware. This advisory includes
packages for:

• OpenStack Object Storage service

OpenStack Object Storage (swift) provides object storage in virtual
containers, which allows users to store and retrieve files (arbitrary
data). The service's distributed architecture supports horizontal scaling;
redundancy as failure-proofing is provided through software-based data
replication. Because Object Storage supports asynchronous eventual
consistency replication, it is well suited to multiple data-center
deployment.

Changes to the openstack-swift component:

• A race condition existed between uploading and replicating objects. Consequently, some of the objects were not replicated, which reduced the durability of the system. The problem has been fixed. Now, replication runs independently from the uploads and always replicates the existing status quo.
• The new version of the package can work with reduced space when drives unmount. Objects are replicated indepentently to all handoff locations.
• The new version of the package provides better protection against attackers who want to use the S3 tokens to gain access to the concurrent Swift API operations. In addition, the swift3 plugin now supports Keystone v3.

Solution

Before applying this update, ensure all previously released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3.

The Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 Release Notes contain the following:

• An explanation of the way in which the provided components interact to

form a working cloud computing environment.

• Technology Previews, Recommended Practices, and Known Issues.
• The channels required for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10, including which

channels need to be enabled and disabled.

The Release Notes are available at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-openstack-platform/10/paged/release-notes

This update is available through 'yum update' on systems registered through
Red Hat Subscription Manager. For more information about Red Hat
Subscription Manager, see:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html/RHSM/index.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 10 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1432502 - Rebase openstack-swift to hash 2db841c
• BZ - 1432612 - Rebase openstack-swift-plugin-swift3 to latest release for OSP
• BZ - 1452869 - Rebase openstack-swift to 80f550

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)