linux-aws: 4.4.0-1017.17 -proposed tracker

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza]

This bug is for tracking the <version to be filled> upload package. This bug will contain status and testing results related to that upload.

For an explanation of the tasks and the associated workflow see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/kernel-sru-workflow
-- swm properties --
boot-testing-requested: true
kernel-stable-master-bug: 1763687
phase: Released
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.4.0-1017.17 - aws
Regression test CMPL.

Issue to note in x86_64 (aws):
  libhugetlbfs - 1 failed (alloc-instantiate-race shared), bad config 3, only spotted on t2.small, passed on the rest
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - test skipped, KVM not supported

Skipped / blacklisted:
 * ubuntu_aufs_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_fan_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_kernel_selftests
 * ubuntu_loop_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_ltp
 * ubuntu_lttng_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_stress_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_unionmount_overlayfs_suite
 * ubuntu_zfs_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_zram_smoke_test

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-aws - 4.4.0-1017.17

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linux-aws (4.4.0-1017.17) trusty; urgency=medium

  * linux-aws: 4.4.0-1017.17 -proposed tracker (LP: #1761439)

  [ Ubuntu: 4.4.0-120.144 ]

  * linux: 4.4.0-120.144 -proposed tracker (LP: #1761438)
  * intel-microcode 3.20180312.0 causes lockup at login screen(w/ linux-
    image-4.13.0-37-generic) (LP: #1759920) // CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 Intel)
    - Revert "x86/mm: Only set IBPB when the new thread cannot ptrace current
      thread"
    - x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
  * DKMS driver builds fail with: Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y, please
    install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel (LP: #1760876)
    - [Packaging] include the retpoline extractor in the headers
  * retpoline hints: primary infrastructure and initial hints (LP: #1758856)
    - [Packaging] retpoline-extract: flag *0xNNN(%reg) branches
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool
    - x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool on 32bit
    - x86/paravirt, objtool: Annotate indirect calls
    - x86/asm: Stop depending on ptrace.h in alternative.h
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- add safe usage hint support
    - [Packaging] retpoline-check -- only report additions
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- widen indirect call/jmp detection
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- elide %rip relative indirections
    - [Packaging] retpoline -- clear hint information from packages
    - SAUCE: modpost: add discard to non-allocatable whitelist
    - KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
    - KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
    - x86/boot, objtool: Annotate indirect jump in secondary_startup_64()
    - SAUCE: early/late -- annotate indirect calls in early/late initialisation
      code
    - SAUCE: vga_set_mode -- avoid jump tables
    - [Config] retpoline -- switch to new format
    - [Packaging] final-checks -- remove check for empty retpoline files
  * Xenial update to 4.4.117 stable release (LP: #1756860)
    - IB/mlx4: Fix incorrectly releasing steerable UD QPs when have only ETH ports
    - PM / devfreq: Propagate error from devfreq_add_device()
    - s390: fix handling of -1 in set{,fs}[gu]id16 syscalls
    - ARM: dts: STi: Add gpio polarity for "hdmi,hpd-gpio" property
    - arm: spear600: Add missing interrupt-parent of rtc
    - arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells
    - arm: spear13xx: Fix spics gpio controller's warning
    - ALSA: seq: Fix regression by incorrect ioctl_mutex usages
    - KVM/x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range(),
      by always inlining iterator helper methods
    - x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
    - drm/radeon: adjust tested variable
    - rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
    - ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
    - ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
    - mm: hide a #warning for COMPILE_TEST
    - video: fbdev: atmel_lcdfb: fix display-timings lookup
    - console/dummy: leave .con_font_get set to NULL
  ...

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

The package has been published and the bug is being set to Fix Released