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Description of problem:
There have been many improvements to the 6.2.0 version of UDS that can be used for VDO in the RHEL7 releases.  Rebasing to use this will have no visible impact to the user, but will provide many stability improvements with minimal effort.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.1.2.0

Additional info:
UDS 6.2.0.x version is used in a more modern release of VDO that is available on github and Fedora COPR currently.

vdo version 6.1.2.16 uses uds version 6.2.0.

Regression testing could not find any issues.
kernel-3.10.0-1048.el7.x86_64
vdo-6.1.2.41-4.el7.x86_64
kmod-kvdo-6.1.2.41-5.el7.x86_64

# modinfo uds
filename:       /lib/modules/3.10.0-1048.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/kmod-kvdo/uds/uds.ko
version:        6.2.0.77
license:        GPL
author:         Red Hat, Inc.
description:    deduplication engine
retpoline:      Y
rhelversion:    7.7
srcversion:     F418316B726FC007E63A8C8
depends:        
vermagic:       3.10.0-1030.el7.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions 
signer:         Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver Update Program (key 3)
sig_key:        BF:57:F3:E8:73:62:BC:72:29:D9:F4:65:32:17:73:DF:D1:F7:7A:80
sig_hashalgo:   sha256

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2233