RHEA-2018:2735 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated openvswitch packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements
are now available in the Fast Datapath channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.

Description

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

The openvswitch packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.10.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1160340, BZ#1618551, BZ#1628603, BZ#1628905, BZ#1628949)

Users of openvswitch are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1160340 - ovs allows moving interfaces to different netns although it cannot work across netns
• BZ - 1628603 - openvswitch2.10 provides openvswitch-dpdk.
• BZ - 1628905 - systemctl reload openvswitch includes default flow.
• BZ - 1628949 - ovs 2.10 dies: assertion !ovs_list_is_empty(list) failed in ovs_list_back() when configured with OpenDaylight as manager/controller

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)