Bug 2196927 - Document the need to configure recheck_wwid setting in multipath.conf
Summary: Document the need to configure recheck_wwid setting in multipath.conf
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2196924
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Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: documentation
Version: 16.1 (Train)
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Reported: 2023-05-10 19:40 UTC by Alan Bishop
Modified: 2023-05-10 19:43 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Issue Tracker OSP-25002 0 None None None 2023-05-10 19:41:49 UTC

Description Alan Bishop 2023-05-10 19:40:52 UTC
CVE-2023-2088 describes a security vulnerability related to cinder volume connections. As documented in the upstream bug [1], it's recommended that multipathd be configured with recheck_wwid enabled.

In OSP-16.1, multipath is configured manually per Section 2.5 of the Storage Guide [2], and there are instructions for patching multipath.conf in order to set the skip_kpartx setting to "yes" ([3],[4]). Additional steps should be added to configure the recheck_wwid in a similar fashion (it should be set to "yes").

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/2004555/comments/38
[2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html-single/storage_guide/index#multipath-configuration
[3] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html-single/storage_guide/index#configure-multipath-on-new-deployments Step 8.
[4] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html-single/storage_guide/index#configure-multipath-on-existing-deployments Step 3.

Additional info:

This is not relevant in OSP-13 because the recheck_wwid option is not available in RHEL 7.

This is not relevant in OSP-16.2 and 17.x because in these releases multipath is automatically configured by the director, and that includes configuring the recheck_wwid parameter.

Comment 1 Alan Bishop 2023-05-10 19:43:50 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2196924 ***


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