RHBA-2022:0053 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.16 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 Fixes and Enhancements:

• Remove pyOpenSSL usage in python-openvswitch (BZ#1988429)
• raft: Reduce memory consumption by storing snapshot as a string instead of json object (BZ#1990058)
• ovsdb-server: Optimize json string serialization to speed up compaction (BZ#1990069)
• ovsdb-server: Optimize monitors by pre-serializing json_cache (BZ#1996152)
• OVS: remove dependency on libmlx4 (BZ#1998122)
• ovsdb-server: Use column diffs for strong reference counting during transaction precommit (BZ#2003203)
• ovsdb-server: Optimize set operations (BZ#2005483)
• ovsdb-server: Deduplicate ovsdb_atom strings (BZ#2006839)
• ovsdb-server: Optimize the way diffs applied to database rows (BZ#2006851)
• ovsdb-server: Transaction history grows larger than database itself. (BZ#2012949)
• Fast Datapath Release (BZ#2028581)

Solution

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 - 1988429 - Remove pyOpenSSL usage in python-openvswitch
• BZ - 1990058 - [RFE] raft: Reduce memory consumption by storing snapshot as a string instead of json object
• BZ - 1990069 - [RFE] ovsdb-server: Optimize json string serialization to speed up compaction
• BZ - 1996152 - [RFE] ovsdb-server: Optimize monitors by pre-serializing json_cache
• BZ - 2003203 - [RFE] ovsdb-server: Use column diffs for strong reference counting during transaction precommit
• BZ - 2005483 - [RFE] ovsdb-server: Optimize set operations
• BZ - 2006839 - [RFE] ovsdb-server: Deduplicate ovsdb_atom strings
• BZ - 2006851 - [RFE] ovsdb-server: Optimize the way diffs applied to database rows
• BZ - 2012949 - ovsdb-server: Transaction history grows larger than database itself.
• BZ - 2028581 - [21.J RHEL-8] Fast Datapath Release

CVEs

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References

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