RHBA-2021:5059 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for ovn is now available in Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) 8.

Description

OVN, the Open Virtual Network, is a system to support virtual network
abstraction. OVN complements the existing capabilities of OVS to add
native support for virtual network abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3
overlays and security groups.

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

Users of ovn are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs.

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 - 1924751 - [RFE] health-checking for ovn-controller
• BZ - 1936475 - Change vlan-limit default value to 0 to support multiple vlans with OVN.
• BZ - 1962345 - [SCALE] ovn-controller physical flow recalculation due to CT zone change
• BZ - 1962833 - [OVN SCALE] northd: Rearrange how load balancer flows are built
• BZ - 1967882 - [ovn-controller] lflow-cache doesn't automatically release memory when scaled down
• BZ - 1970258 - [OVN] OVN builds too many lflows for NA responding for load balancer VIPs
• BZ - 1978605 - [OVN SCALE][ovn-controller] Load_Balancer changes trigger unnecessary additional flow computations.
• BZ - 1995326 - Loadbalancer `skip_snat="true"` Option causes OVN-Controller race when adding LB to Logical_Router
• BZ - 1995333 - Allow unique key to be passed as part of ovn-installed
• BZ - 2006306 - IGMP multicast relay not working with router distributed gateway ports
• BZ - 2007549 - BFD sessions are not created correctly from the parameters of lr-route-add
• BZ - 2012932 - VM unable to contact metadata due to ARP problem
• BZ - 2014444 - ipv6 prefix is not generated when prefix_delegation is true
• BZ - 2018179 - N/S incoming packets with length > 1500 dropped at br-int when MTU=9000 configured

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)