linux: 4.4.0-121.145 -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

backports: bug 1763688 (linux-lts-xenial)
derivatives: bug 1763689 (linux-snapdragon)
-- swm properties --
boot-testing-requested: true
bugs-spammed: true
phase: Released
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Devices Certification Bot (ce-certification-qa)]

Snap beta testing complete, no regressions found. Ready for promotion. Results here: https://trello.com/c/YzHvVUX0/238-pc-kernel-440-121145-113

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Hardware Certification have begun testing this -proposed kernel.

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

Verification completed successfully for Xenial.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Hardware Certification have completed testing this -proposed kernel. No regressions were observed, results are available here: http://people.canonical.com/~hwcert/sru-testing/xenial/4.4.0-121.145/xenial-proposed-published.html

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.4.0-121.145 - lowlatency
Regression test CMPL.

Issue to note in amd64:
  monotonic_time - gtod failed on rumford
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - Unable to insert test_bpf module on Xenial (bug 1765698)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - 29 failed on amaura, 18 failed on harpo, 20 failed on michael, 27 failed on pepe
  ubuntu_lxc - lxc-test-ubuntu (Failed to start networking in ubuntu-cloud container)
  xfstests - xfs generic/475 failed

Issue to note in i386:
  monotonic_time - gtod tend to fail on onibi
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - failed to build (bug 1765366)
  xfstests - xfs generic/308 timed out, bug 1738152

4.4.0-121.145 - generic
Regression test CMPL.

Issue to note in amd64:
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - Unable to insert test_bpf module on Xenial (bug 1765698)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - 29 failed on amaura, 20 failed on michael, 28 failed on pepe
  xfstests - xfs generic/475 failed

Issue to note in arm64:
  hwclock - issue for HP m400 (bug 1716603)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - unable to create KVM with uvtool (bug 1749427)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - pmu on ms10-34-mcdivittB0-kernel (bug 1751000) gicv2-ipi and gicv2-active on starmie

Issue to note in i386:
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - failed to build (bug 1765366)
  xfstests - xfs generic/308 timed out, bug 1738152

Issue to note in s390x (Ubuntu on LPAR):
  aio_dio_bugs - event res -22 (bug 1730895)
  libhugetlbfs - failed 11 killed by signal 7 bad config 1
  scrashme - Test failed to build (bug 1689240)
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - Unable to insert test_bpf module on Xenial (bug 1765698)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - uvtool issue (bug 1729854)

Issue to note in s390x (zKVM):
  aio_dio_bugs - event res -22 (bug 1730895)
  libhugetlbfs - failed 11 killed by signal 7 bad config 1
  scrashme - Test failed to build (bug 1689240)
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - Unable to insert test_bpf module on Xenial (bug 1765698)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - uvtool issue (bug 1729854)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - 11 failed (nested kvm is not supported)
  ubuntu_lxc - lxc-test-ubuntu (Failed to start networking in ubuntu-cloud container)
  ubuntu_qrt_apparmor - passed after re-test

Issue to note in s390x (zVM):
  aio_dio_bugs - event res -22 (bug 1730895)
  libhugetlbfs - failed 11 killed by signal 7 bad config 1
  scrashme - Test failed to build (bug 1689240)
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - Unable to insert test_bpf module on Xenial (bug 1765698)
  ubuntu_ecryptfs - passed after re-test
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - uvtool issue (bug 1729854)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - skey failed
  ubuntu_lxc - lxc-test-ubuntu (Failed to start networking in ubuntu-cloud container)

MISSING RESULT FROM POWER8 - testing node out-of-order

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-121.145

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linux (4.4.0-121.145) xenial; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.4.0-121.145 -proposed tracker (LP: #1763687)

  * Ubuntu-4.4.0-120.144 fails to boot on arm64* hardware (LP: #1763644)
    - [Config] arm64: disable BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON

linux (4.4.0-120.144) xenial; urgency=medium

  * 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 fo...

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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