libica crashes with illegal instruction on zEC12-GA1

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[impact]
* impossible to use hw accelerated crypto on zEC12 hardware

[testcase]
* execute e.g. icastats on zEC12 march
* it shall not crash / result in illegal instructions

Please backport libica upstream commit:

    Fix msa level detection

    Fixed problem in library constructor that was leading to false positive
    msa level detection resulting in illegal instruction.

See also:
https://sourceforge.net/p/opencryptoki/libica/ci/eeb40e5aea7dd36580629e6b17cd7f03fb62549c/

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-11-22 08:25 EDT-------
Changed Target Milestone to 16.04.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libica - 2.6.1-4

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libica (2.6.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch to fix msa level detection.
    LP: #1642639. Closes: #845056
  * Build-depend on libssl1.0-dev, upgrade to 1.1 requires v3.0 upstream
    release. Closes: #835811

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:13:12 +0000

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libica into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libica/2.6.1-1ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libica into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libica/2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Verified with testsuite that libica does not regress on xenial, on z13 box. Do not have access to zEC12 hardware to verify that msa detection is now resolved.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Similarly no regression on yakkety, on z13 either.

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Default Comment by Bridge

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

zEC12-GA1 not available for testing; does not regress on GA2 or z13; please release as is.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-01-16 10:42 EDT-------
Additionally source code review done by IBM. Fix is included ! Please SRU this fix.. Thx

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

On 16 January 2017 at 15:49, bugproxy <email address hidden> wrote:
> ------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-01-16 10:42 EDT-------
> Additionally source code review done by IBM. Fix is included ! Please SRU this fix.. Thx
>

Please do not remove verification-done tags on the bug via bugproxy.

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Regards,

Dimitri.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libica - 2.6.1-1ubuntu2.1

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libica (2.6.1-1ubuntu2.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch to fix msa level detection.
    LP: #1642639.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:35:34 +0000

[Robie Basak (racb)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for libica 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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libica - 2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1

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libica (2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch to fix msa level detection.
    LP: #1642639.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:13:12 +0000

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-01-25 06:42 EDT-------
IBM Bugzilla -> closed