RHBA-2023:2171 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1717611 - RFE: Interface for querying supported HyperV Enlightenments
• BZ - 1777212 - internal error for domxml-to-native qemu-argv with vsock
• BZ - 1820437 - Libvirtd service is not restarted on upgrade if socket activation is disabled
• BZ - 1824722 - cdrom tray state is not updated on VM reset
• BZ - 1964855 - 'systemctl stop libvirt-guests' hangs after libvirtd timeout
• BZ - 1988211 - Can't dump the guest xml from VMware if guest network has no entry 'ethernet0.networkName'
• BZ - 2000075 - [embed qemu] Failed to start vm by virt-qemu-run if vm has network interface
• BZ - 2013523 - Save and restore the vm with cdrom cause the vm's cdrom tray locked
• BZ - 2033879 - maximum number of clients must be greater than the maximum number of clients waiting for authentication
• BZ - 2037998 - [cgroup_v2] Mismatch range info of cpu_shares, vcpu_quota,emulator_quota,global_quota, iothread_quota with cgroup v2 in virsh schedinfo cmd prompt, man-pages and libvirt doc
• BZ - 2040272 - [RFE] Allow passing file descriptors to qemu for disks on startup and for hotplug
• BZ - 2040638 - Libvirt needs to document how to validate a AMD SEV guest measurement
• BZ - 2040644 - RFE: libvirt needs to provide a reference implementation tool for validating AMD SEV guest measurements
• BZ - 2063723 - RFE: Allow TPM device to connect to an externally launched swtpm
• BZ - 2074559 - RFE core scheduling support in libvirt
• BZ - 2078805 - [libvirt] untranslated strings in Cockpit - libvirt - zh-CN
• BZ - 2084046 - active_pcr_banks are removed from guest xml if tpm version not specified
• BZ - 2086677 - virt-host-validate issues a misleading error message when host can't use KVM
• BZ - 2094641 - The comment for "listen_tcp" in virtproxyd.conf needs to update
• BZ - 2101633 - libvirt live xml shows options which qemu do not support, and no error msg in libvirtd.log
• BZ - 2103132 - wrong error message when thread pool size of virtiofs out of range
• BZ - 2108483 - Add alias support for virtio-iommu
• BZ - 2108965 - RFE: libvirt: Add native integration for passt (https://passt.top)
• BZ - 2109450 - libvirt doesn't catch mdevs created thru sysfs
• BZ - 2111301 - swtpm.pid still exists after destroying the guest
• BZ - 2111317 - Support more than 1 vdpa devices in a vm
• BZ - 2111948 - Postcopy-recover failed if vm I/O error occurred during postcopy-paused status
• BZ - 2114866 - Migration parameters are not reset successfully when kill dest virtproxyd during p2p migration
• BZ - 2121262 - virt-xml-validate failed to validate the scsihost node device XML with 'vport_ops' capability
• BZ - 2121276 - Fail to validate the snapshot XML with inactiveDomain
• BZ - 2121627 - define vm with invalid pcie-root-target chassis -1 should failed
• BZ - 2122534 - Misleading error message when missing kernel parameter for SE
• BZ - 2123371 - [libvirt] Kernel does not provide mount namespace [rhel-9.2.0]
• BZ - 2124466 - Rebase libvirt in RHEL 9.2.0
• BZ - 2125111 - Live block migration fails: QEMU compiled without old-style (blk/-b, inc/-i) block migration
• BZ - 2127409 - libvirt: SELinux labels are not set on UNIX sockets
• BZ - 2128993 - data type of start time should be improved
• BZ - 2129239 - virtqemud coredump after restart virtqemud with a vm running with a hostdev interface
• BZ - 2130089 - libvirt did not do storage image pre-creation on the target host when doing storage migration
• BZ - 2130192 - RFE: support live migrating TPM state to a target that shares storage with the source
• BZ - 2134009 - memory device hotplug fails after umount and mount hugepage path again
• BZ - 2137298 - The Operation field of domjobinfo is "Unknown" on migration target host
• BZ - 2139664 - [libvirt] RHEL 9.2 Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 2143235 - memory utilization of virtnodedevd.service is constantly growing
• BZ - 2143838 - vdpa device and vfio device should not share the locked memory
• BZ - 2143840 - prio_workers in virtqemud.conf does not take effect
• BZ - 2144738 - vm start successfully even there is a pre-created tap device with the same name (type="network")
• BZ - 2145188 - unexpected warning show in virtlogd log when starting guest
• BZ - 2148266 - Backport the qemuDomainGetStatsCpu fallback Implementation
• BZ - 2150004 - VMs requiring vTPM fails to create
• BZ - 2150455 - qemuAgentGetDisks cannot parse response from a guest agent running in Windows VM
• BZ - 2150760 - Restart virtqemud then try to save a running vm will cause virtqemud crash
• BZ - 2151202 - Bad permissions for files shipped by libvirt-client
• BZ - 2151869 - libvirt kills virtual machine on restart when 2M and 1G hugepages are mounted
• BZ - 2156289 - Guest doesn't fail to start directly due to an unavailable configuration
• BZ - 2158701 - Hotplugged dimm device has wrong alias name in some specific scenario
• BZ - 2161557 - Restore with --reset-nvram from a corrupt nvram failed for vm with vtpm after first restore without flag
• BZ - 2165466 - Can not update interface link state by domif-setlink
• BZ - 2166411 - virt-xml: Updating cdrom device file: Error attempting device update: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'blockdev-remove-medium': Tray of device 'scsi0-0-0' is not open
• BZ - 2167302 - Instance spawn failing with "Failed to build and run instance: libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: Process exited prior to exec: libvirt: QEMU Driver error : failed to umount devfs on /dev: Device or resource busy"
• BZ - 2168762 - virtqemud coredumped when migrate transient vm with external vtpm
• BZ - 2168769 - Save guest failed sometimes after restarting the service(mainly rhel6 guest)
• BZ - 2169244 - Guest start successfully with passt backend interface even the passt process failed to start
• BZ - 2170826 - [snapshot] unclear error message when deleting an external memory snapshot
• BZ - 2172098 - Support restarting passt process to preserve connectivity in case of inadvertent termination
• BZ - 2172267 - libvirt is unable to start passt process when SELinux is enforcing
• BZ - 2172347 - 3 minor issues related to virt-qemu-sev-validate command
• BZ - 2172574 - Networking receive/transmit_bytes metrics values are swapped
• BZ - 2174446 - Logs are spammed with ' Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-ga-command' message

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index