RHBA-2020:2948 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.13 is now available in Fast Datapath for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for
the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• ovs-bugtool fails due to no module named 'StringIO' (BZ#1809241)
• [telco] ovsdb-server for NBDB pegged at 100% when running these commands (BZ#1836305)
• [ovsdb-server] Memory leak of RAFT incomplete command (BZ#1836307)
• [OVN SCALE] Disable ovsdb raft inactivity probe (BZ#1836308)
• [RHEL-8] [intel] testpmd fails inside OpenShift pod version 18.11 (BZ#1851169)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for IBM z Systems) 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1809241 - ovs-bugtool fails due to no module named 'StringIO'
• BZ - 1836305 - [telco] ovsdb-server for NBDB pegged at 100% when running these commands
• BZ - 1836307 - [ovsdb-server] Memory leak of RAFT incomplete command
• BZ - 1836308 - [OVN SCALE] Disable ovsdb raft inactivity probe
• BZ - 1851169 - [RHEL-8] [intel] testpmd fails inside OpenShift pod version 18.11

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)