fwts 18.03.00-0ubuntu4 ADT test failure with linux-hwe-edge 5.3.0-19.20~18.04.2

[Khaled El Mously]

[Impact]
The DKMS package won't work with new kernels on bionic.

[Test case]
Install and load the modules.

[Regression potential]
This might break the functioning of the module.

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Testing failed on:
    ppc64el: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-bionic/bionic/ppc64el/f/fwts/20191023_185446_01554@/log.gz

[Alex Hung (alexhung)]

@Khaled,

fwts is now 19.09.00. Do you observe the same problem with 19.09.00 too?

This may be the same as LP:1836407

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Thanks Marcelo, I'll apply the patch and upload this for the SRU.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

fwts (18.03.00-0ubuntu5) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Kernel 5.3 compatibility in ppc64el (LP: #1849570)
    - debian/patches/0009-efi_runtime-fix-gcc-warning-for-efi_runtime_reset_sy.patch
    - debian/patches/0010-efi_runtime-enable-KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN-y-to-workarou.patch

Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 06:44:35 -0300
Changed-By: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <email address hidden>
Maintainer: Firmware Testing Team <email address hidden>
Signed-By: Colin Ian King <email address hidden>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts/18.03.00-0ubuntu5

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 OK: fwts_18.03.00.orig.tar.gz
 OK: fwts_18.03.00-0ubuntu5.debian.tar.xz
 OK: fwts_18.03.00-0ubuntu5.dsc
     -> Component: universe Section: devel

Upload Warnings:
Redirecting ubuntu bionic to ubuntu bionic-proposed.
This upload awaits approval by a distro manager

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Khaled, or anyone else affected,

Accepted fwts into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts/18.03.00-0ubuntu5 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-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

I've given the 18.03.0-ubuntu5 fwts-efi-runtime-dkms a test on a bionic ppc64el in a VM with the -proposed fwts dkms module and it builds successfully against the 4.15.0-65-generic and 4.15.0-71-generic kernels.

Thanks for fixing this.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

And builds successfully against 5.0.0-37.40~18.04.01 HWE kernel too.

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

And now builds fine with 5.3.0-23-generic.

Preparing to unpack .../fwts-efi-runtime-dkms_18.03.00-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fwts-efi-runtime-dkms (18.03.00-0ubuntu5) ...
Setting up fwts-efi-runtime-dkms (18.03.00-0ubuntu5) ...
Loading new fwts-efi-runtime-dkms-18.03.00 DKMS files...
Building for 5.3.0-23-generic
Building initial module for 5.3.0-23-generic
EFI variables are not supported on this system
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars not found, aborting.
Done.

efi_runtime:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.3.0-23-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Ship it! :-)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fwts - 18.03.00-0ubuntu5

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fwts (18.03.00-0ubuntu5) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Kernel 5.3 compatibility in ppc64el (LP: #1849570)
    - debian/patches/0009-efi_runtime-fix-gcc-warning-for-efi_runtime_reset_sy.patch
    - debian/patches/0010-efi_runtime-enable-KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN-y-to-workarou.patch

 -- Marcelo Henrique Cerri <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Nov 2019 06:44:35 -0300

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for fwts has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.