RHBA-2019:0898 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated openvswitch packages that fix several bugs and add several enhancement 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.

This update fixes the following bugs and adds the following enhancements::

• ftp can't open data connection in the DNAT topo (BZ#1485800)
• Support setup/match of tos and ttl TC offloading of ip tunnels (BZ#1641910)
• mlx5: Q-in-Q Support (BZ#1642349)
• mlx5/ASAP2: GRE HW offloading (BZ#1642363)
• Offload indications improvements (BZ#1660453)
• Error attaching bnxt to OVS-dpdk bridge (BZ#1671422)
• Memory leak in C Python JSON library (BZ#1672553)
• Backport unixctl option for networking-ovn functional tests (BZ#1687480)
• ovn-controller is using 100% cpu on OVN deployment, delay on security groups being applied (BZ#1695725)

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:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1485800 - [ovs-dpdk conntrack]ftp can't open data connection in the DNAT topo
• BZ - 1672553 - [ovs2.9] Memory leak in C Python JSON library
• BZ - 1687480 - Backport unixctl option for networking-ovn functional tests
• BZ - 1695725 - ovn-controller is using 100% cpu on OVN deployment, delay on security groups being applied

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)