RHBA-2022:1146 - 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 Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• [RFE] ovsdb-server: Use column diffs for weak reference counting during transaction precommit (BZ#2005958)
• Restoring saved flows ovs-ofctl: [...] field igmp missing value (BZ#2029940)
• [OVN SCALE] ovsdb-server: Backport fixes for DB compaction timings (BZ#2044614)
• ovsdb-server: Clustered database may send zero uuid as a last transaction id (BZ#2044621)
• [DPDK][Mellanox][NIC Partitioning] Port creation fails on CX4 VF with higher order of PCI address. (BZ#2059758)
• [22.B RHEL-8] Fast Datapath Release (BZ#2060075)

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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL for ARM 64) 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2005958 - [RFE] ovsdb-server: Use column diffs for weak reference counting during transaction precommit
• BZ - 2029940 - Restoring saved flows ovs-ofctl: [...] field igmp missing value
• BZ - 2044614 - [OVN SCALE] ovsdb-server: Backport fixes for DB compaction timings
• BZ - 2044621 - ovsdb-server: Clustered database may send zero uuid as a last transaction id
• BZ - 2059758 - [DPDK][Mellanox][NIC Partitioning] Port creation fails on CX4 VF with higher order of PCI address.
• BZ - 2060075 - [22.B RHEL-8] Fast Datapath Release

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)