Public bug reported:

After introduction of the Chassis_Private table in OVN 20.09, CMS'es do
expect data plane daemons to be able to write to the external_ids
column.

However the current RBAC permissions do not allow for this. Running with this 
patch for ovn-northd fixes the problem:
diff --git a/northd/ovn-northd.c b/northd/ovn-northd.c
index 27df6a379..d332721cd 100644
--- a/northd/ovn-northd.c
+++ b/northd/ovn-northd.c
@@ -12951,7 +12951,7 @@ static const char *rbac_chassis_update[] =
 static const char *rbac_chassis_private_auth[] =
     {"name"};
 static const char *rbac_chassis_private_update[] =
-    {"nb_cfg", "nb_cfg_timestamp", "chassis"};
+    {"nb_cfg", "nb_cfg_timestamp", "chassis", "external_ids"};
 
 static const char *rbac_encap_auth[] =
     {"chassis_name"};

For completeness I will include output from a OpenStack 
neutron-ovn-metadata-agent daemon when running without the fix:
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command 
Traceback (most recent call last):
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/command.py", line 40, 
in execute
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command     
t.add(self)
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command   File 
"/usr/lib/python3.8/contextlib.py", line 120, in __exit__
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command     
next(self.gen)
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/api.py", line 119, in transaction
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command     del 
self._nested_txns_map[cur_thread_id]
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/api.py", line 69, in __exit__
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command     
self.result = self.commit()
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/transaction.py", line 
62, in commit
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command     
raise result.ex
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/connection.py", line 
122, in run
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command     
txn.results.put(txn.do_commit())
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/transaction.py", line 
118, in do_commit
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command     
raise RuntimeError(msg)
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command 
RuntimeError: OVSDB Error: {"details":"RBAC rules for client 
\"ps5-ra4-n2.maas\" role \"ovn-controller\" prohibit modification of table 
\"Chassis_Private\".","error":"permission error"}
2021-01-25 08:06:51.333 1763580 ERROR ovsdbapp.backend.ovs_idl.command 
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 CRITICAL neutron [-] Unhandled error: 
RuntimeError: OVSDB Error: {"details":"RBAC rules for client 
\"ps5-ra4-n2.maas\" role \"ovn-controller\" prohibit modification of table 
\"Chassis_Private\".","error":"permission error"}
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron Traceback (most recent call last):
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/bin/neutron-ovn-metadata-agent", line 10, in <module>
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     sys.exit(main())
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/neutron/cmd/eventlet/agents/ovn_metadata.py", 
line 17, in main
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     metadata_agent.main()
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/neutron/agent/ovn/metadata_agent.py", line 39, 
in main
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     agt.start()
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/neutron/agent/ovn/metadata/agent.py", line 229, 
in start
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     self.register_metadata_agent()
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/neutron/agent/ovn/metadata/agent.py", line 239, 
in register_metadata_agent
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     self.sb_idl.db_add(table, 
self.chassis, 'external_ids',
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/command.py", line 40, 
in execute
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     t.add(self)
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3.8/contextlib.py", line 120, in __exit__
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     next(self.gen)
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/api.py", line 119, in transaction
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     del 
self._nested_txns_map[cur_thread_id]
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/api.py", line 69, in __exit__
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     self.result = self.commit()
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/transaction.py", line 
62, in commit
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     raise result.ex
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/connection.py", line 
122, in run
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     
txn.results.put(txn.do_commit())
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron   File 
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ovsdbapp/backend/ovs_idl/transaction.py", line 
118, in do_commit
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron     raise RuntimeError(msg)
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron RuntimeError: OVSDB Error: 
{"details":"RBAC rules for client \"ps5-ra4-n2.maas\" role \"ovn-controller\" 
prohibit modification of table \"Chassis_Private\".","error":"permission error"}
2021-01-25 08:06:51.334 1763580 ERROR neutron 
2021-01-25 08:06:51.375 1763595 INFO oslo_service.service [-] Parent process 
has died unexpectedly, exiting
2021-01-25 08:06:51.375 1763594 INFO oslo_service.service [-] Parent process 
has died unexpectedly, exiting
2021-01-25 08:06:51.375 1763595 INFO eventlet.wsgi.server [-] (1763595) wsgi 
exited, is_accepting=True
2021-01-25 08:06:51.376 1763594 INFO eventlet.wsgi.server [-] (1763594) wsgi 
exited, is_accepting=True

** Affects: ovn (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: ps5

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