File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.9283

<patchinfo incident="9283">
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1112697">Update openvswitch to 2.5.6</issue>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1110865">Openvswitch run out of file descriptor in networks nodes</issue>
  <category>recommended</category>
  <rating>moderate</rating>
  <packager>markoschandras</packager>
  <description>This update for openvswitch fixes the following issues:

openvswitch was updated to the new upstream bugfix release 2.5.6 (bsc#1112697).

Some of the changes are

* odp-execute: Fix broken build with Clang as compiler.
* netdev: Properly clear 'details' when iterating in NETDEV_QOS_FOR_EACH.
* lex: Fix buffer overrun parsing overlong hexadecimal constants.
* ovsdb-client: Fix a bug that uses wrong index
* flow: Fix uninitialized flow fields in IPv6 error case.
* meta-flow: Make "nw_frag" a synonym for "ip_frag".
* odp-util: Don't attempt to write IPv6 flow label bits that don't exist.
* daemon-unix: Use same name for original or restarted children.
* utilities: Drop shebang from bash completion script
* netdev-linux: Avoid division by 0 if kernel reports bad scheduler data.
* pcap-file: Fix formatting of log message.
* compat: Initialize IPv4 reassembly secret timer
* ofp-group: Don't assert-fail decoding bad OF1.5 group mod type or command.
* ofp-actions: Fix buffer overread in decode_LEARN_specs().
* ofp-actions: Avoid buffer overread in BUNDLE action decoding.
* rconn: Suppress 'connected' log for unreliable connections.
* rconn: Introduce new invariant to fix assertion failure in corner case.
* ovs-vsctl: Fix segfault when attempting to del-port from parent bridge.
* ovn: Fix tunnel id overflow.
* bond: Fix bug that writes to freed memory
* netdev: netdev_get_etheraddr is not functioning as advertised.
* ofp-util: Fix memory leaks on error cases in ofputil_decode_group_mod().
* odp-util: Fix buffer overread in parsing string form of ODP flows.
* ofp-util: Fix buffer overread in ofputil_decode_bundle_add().
* ofp-util: Fix buffer overread in ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply().
* ofproto-dpif-xlate: Always process IGMP packets in userspace.
* ofp-util: Fix memory leaks when parsing OF1.5 group properties.
* ofproto-dpif-upcall: Fix key attr iteration.
* ofproto-dpif-upcall: Fix action attr iteration.
* bridge: Avoid read of uninitialized data configuring Auto-Attach.
* lacp: enable bond slave immediately after lacp attach
* ofproto-dpif-xlate: Fixes for propagating state of conntrack.
* ovsdb-types: Fix memory leak on error path.
* ofp-util: fix memory leak in ofputil_pull_ofp11_buckets
* ofp-util: Check length of buckets in ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod().
* ofp-print: Don't abort on unknown reason in role status message.
* odp-util: Avoid misaligned references to ip6_hdr.
* ofp-util: Initialize tunnel metadata for OpenFlow 1.0 matches.
* extract-ofp-errors: Avoid unintentional sign extension in generated code.
* flow: Fix buffer overread in flow_hash_symmetric_l3l4().
* ofp-print: Avoid array overread in print_table_instruction_features().
* dpif-netlink: Fix multiple-free and fd leak on error path.
* bridge: Fix memory leak in bridge_aa_update_trunks().
* ofproto-dpif-xlate: Fix the memory leak in netflow.
* rstp/stp: Unref the rstp/stp when bridges destroyed.
* ofproto-dpif-xlate: Allow sending BFD messages when STP port is not forwarding.
* pinsched: Update next_txq pointer when destroying pinqueue.
* ofproto/bond: fix interal flow leak of tcp-balance bond
* ofproto/bond: Fix bond post recirc rule leak.
* ofproto/bond: Fix bond reconfiguration race condition.
* ofproto/bond: Fix bond/show when all interfaces are disabled
* ofproto/bond: Validate active-slave mac.
* tnl-neigh-cache: Force revalidation for a new neighbor entry.
* ofproto-dpif: Use acquire/release barriers with 'tables_version'.
* dpif-netdev: Avoids repeated addition of DP_STAT_LOST.
* rconn: Avoid abort for ill-behaved remote.
* ofproto-dpif-ipfix: Fix assertion failure for bad configuration.
* netdev-dpdk: Use instant sending instead of queueing of packets.
* ovs-vswitchd: Avoid segfault for "netdev" datapath.
* ofproto: Incorrect statistics will be increased
* tunnel: set udp dst-port in tunnel metadata
* ofproto-dpif: Always forward 'used' from the old_rule.
* ofproto-dpif-xlate: Fix duplicate multicast packets
* ofproto: Return the OFPC_BUNDLES bit in switch features reply.
* tnl-ports: fix missing netdev_close
* stream-ssl: Fix memory leak on error path.
* dpif-netdev: Fix crash in dpif_netdev_execute().
* netdev-linux: double tagged packets should use 0x88a8
</description>
<summary>Recommended update for openvswitch</summary>
</patchinfo>