backport fwts UEFI test driver to Xenial

Bug #1633506 reported by Colin Ian King
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Colin Ian King
Xenial
Fix Released
Low
Colin Ian King

Bug Description

[SRU Justification, XENIAL]

The fwts UEFI test driver is now upstream in Linux 4.9 and also in the Ubuntu Yakkety 4.8 kernel, so it would be useful for fwts support to add it into the Xenial kernel as default (for example Xenial bases fwts snaps as we can dispense with the DKMS module support).

[Fix]
Upstream commit ff6301dabc3ca20ab8f50f8d0252ac05da610d8 "efi: Add efi_test driver for exporting UEFI runtime service interfaces"

This patch requires a minor patch wiggle on the Makefile and Kconfig to backport to Xenial.

[Test]
Build fwts from the source and run on a Xenial kernel w/o the fwts dpkg based efi driver and run "sudo fwts --uefitests -" and the tests will fail. Install the fixed kernel with the driver and the tests will now run because the module is loaded by fwts and we can now exercise the UEFI run time interfaces from fwts as root.

[Regression Potential]
This adds test functionality and will not impact on any other driver or subsystem. To access these test interfaces one requires root privileges, so risk of normal unprivileged uses accessing UEFI run time services are zero.

CVE References

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Colin Ian King (colin-king)
summary: - backport fwts UEFI test driver top Xenial
+ backport fwts UEFI test driver to Xenial
Seth Forshee (sforshee)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial):
assignee: nobody → Colin Ian King (colin-king)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Luis Henriques (henrix) wrote :

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

tags: added: verification-needed-xenial
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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Tested against upstream fwts that utilizes this in-kernel driver module and it works successfully. Marking as verified.

tags: added: verification-done-xenial
removed: verification-needed-xenial
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-lts-xenial has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-51.72

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linux (4.4.0-51.72) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1644611

  * 4.4.0-1037-snapdragon #41: kernel panic on boot (LP: #1644596)
    - Revert "dma-mapping: introduce the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute"
    - Revert "powerpc: implement the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute"
    - Revert "nvme: use the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute"

linux (4.4.0-50.71) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1644169

  * xenial 4.4.0-49.70 kernel breaks LXD userspace (LP: #1644165)
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) fuse: Allow user namespace mounts by
      default"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) fs: Don't remove suid for CAP_FSETID for
      userns root"
    - Revert "(namespace) Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: fs: Don't remove suid for
      CAP_FSETID in s_user_ns""
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) fs: Allow superblock owner to change
      ownership of inodes"
    - Revert "(namespace) Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: fs: Allow superblock owner to
      change ownership of inodes with unmappable ids""
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) security/integrity: Harden against
      malformed xattrs"
    - Revert "(namespace) Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: ima/evm: Allow root in s_user_ns
      to set xattrs""
    - Revert "(namespace) dquot: For now explicitly don't support filesystems
      outside of init_user_ns"
    - Revert "(namespace) quota: Handle quota data stored in s_user_ns in
      quota_setxquota"
    - Revert "(namespace) quota: Ensure qids map to the filesystem"
    - Revert "(namespace) Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: quota: Convert ids relative to
      s_user_ns""
    - Revert "(namespace) Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: quota: Require that qids passed
      to dqget() be valid and map into s_user_ns""
    - Revert "(namespace) vfs: Don't create inodes with a uid or gid unknown to
      the vfs"
    - Revert "(namespace) vfs: Don't modify inodes with a uid or gid unknown to
      the vfs"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) fuse: Translate ids in posix acl xattrs"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) posix_acl: Export
      posix_acl_fix_xattr_userns() to modules"
    - Revert "(namespace) vfs: Verify acls are valid within superblock's
      s_user_ns."
    - Revert "(namespace) Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: fs: Update posix_acl support to
      handle user namespace mounts""
    - Revert "(namespace) fs: Refuse uid/gid changes which don't map into
      s_user_ns"
    - Revert "(namespace) Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: fs: Refuse uid/gid changes which
      don't map into s_user_ns""
    - Revert "(namespace) mnt: Move the FS_USERNS_MOUNT check into sget_userns"

linux (4.4.0-49.70) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1640921

  * Infiniband driver (kernel module) needed for Azure (LP: #1641139)
    - SAUCE: RDMA Infiniband for Windows Azure
    - [Config] CONFIG_HYPERV_INFINIBAND_ND=m
    - SAUCE: Makefile RDMA infiniband driver for Windows Azure
    - [Config] Add hv_network_direct.ko to generic inclusion list
    - SAUCE: RDMA Infiniband for Windows Azure is dependent on amd64...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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