xenial/linux-azure: 4.15.0-1096.106~16.04.1 -proposed tracker

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza]

This bug will contain status and test results related to a kernel source (or snap) as stated in the title.

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: 1894683
packages:
  main: linux-azure
  meta: linux-meta-azure
  signed: linux-signed-azure
phase: Complete
phase-changed: Monday, 21. September 2020 20:28 UTC
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true
reason: {}
trackers:
  xenial/linux-azure/azure-kernel: bug 1894680
variant: debs
versions:
  main: 4.15.0-1096.106~16.04.1
  meta: 4.15.0.1096.90
  signed: 4.15.0-1096.106~16.04.1

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.15.0-1096.106~16.04.1 - azure
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

Issue to note in x86_64 (azure):
  ubuntu_kernel_selftests - cpu-hotplug on some instances (bug 1831543) rtnetlink.sh in net returning 1 for a skipped test (bug 1895258)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - apic timeouted (bug 1748103) memory (bug 1831449) vmx (bug 1821394) vmx_host_state_area (bug 1866585) vmx_intr_window_test (bug 1866586) vmx_nm_test (bug 1866587) vmx_nmi_window_test (bug 1866588) vmx_pending_event_test (bug 1866591) failed on Standard_D16s_v3, Standard_D2_v3, Standard_D2s_v3, Standard_E2s_v3, Standard_F2s_v2, Standard_F32s_v2
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - btrfs fill_fs test in fallocate06 (bug 1866323) fanotify09 case 3 (bug 1876684) kill11 (bug 1865965) quotactl04 (bug 1854153) shmctl04 (bug 1895276) statx05 (bug 1798524) move_pages12 on some instance (bug 1831043)
  ubuntu_lxc - lxc-test-apparmor-mount failed with Unable to fetch GPG key from keyserver

Skipped / blacklisted:
  * ubuntu_bpf
  * ubuntu_ltp

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-azure - 4.15.0-1096.106~16.04.1

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linux-azure (4.15.0-1096.106~16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * xenial/linux-azure: 4.15.0-1096.106~16.04.1 -proposed tracker (LP: #1894681)

  [ Ubuntu: 4.15.0-1096.106 ]

  * bionic/linux-azure-4.15: 4.15.0-1096.106 -proposed tracker (LP: #1894683)
  * Mellanox Check For Write Combining Support (LP: #1874503)
    - RDMA/rxe: Close a race after ib_register_device
    - IB/mlx5: Align usage of QP1 create flags with rest of mlx5 defines
    - IB/mlx5: Test write combining support
  * Enable Invariant TSC Support (LP: #1875467)
    - x86/hyperv: Allow guests to enable InvariantTSC
    - x86/hyperv: Set TSC clocksource as default w/ InvariantTSC
  * Only notify Hyper-V for die events that are oops (LP: #1891222)
    - Drivers: hv: vmbus: Only notify Hyper-V for die events that are oops
  * speed for CX4 VF showing as unknown in ethtool output (LP: #1876770)
    - net/mlx5: Expose link speed directly
    - net/mlx5: Expose port speed when possible
    - net/mlx5: Tidy up and fix reverse christmas ordring
  * bionic/linux: 4.15.0-118.119 -proposed tracker (LP: #1894697)
  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - update dkms package versions
  * Introduce the new NVIDIA 450-server and the 450 UDA series (LP: #1887674)
    - [packaging] add signed modules for nvidia 450 and 450-server
  * cgroup refcount is bogus when cgroup_sk_alloc is disabled (LP: #1886860)
    - cgroup: add missing skcd->no_refcnt check in cgroup_sk_clone()
  * CVE-2020-12888
    - vfio/type1: Support faulting PFNMAP vmas
    - vfio-pci: Fault mmaps to enable vma tracking
    - vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory
  * [Hyper-V] VSS and File Copy daemons intermittently fails to start
    (LP: #1891224)
    - [Packaging] Bind hv_vss_daemon startup to hv_vss device
    - [Packaging] bind hv_fcopy_daemon startup to hv_fcopy device
  * KVM: Fix zero_page reference counter overflow when using KSM on KVM compute
    host (LP: #1837810)
    - KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running
  * Fix false-negative return value for rtnetlink.sh in kselftests/net
    (LP: #1890136)
    - selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
    - selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
  * Bionic update: upstream stable patchset 2020-08-18 (LP: #1892091)
    - USB: serial: qcserial: add EM7305 QDL product ID
    - USB: iowarrior: fix up report size handling for some devices
    - usb: xhci: define IDs for various ASMedia host controllers
    - usb: xhci: Fix ASMedia ASM1142 DMA addressing
    - Revert "ALSA: hda: call runtime_allow() for all hda controllers"
    - ALSA: seq: oss: Serialize ioctls
    - staging: android: ashmem: Fix lockdep warning for write operation
    - Bluetooth: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hci_extended_inquiry_result_evt()
    - Bluetooth: Prevent out-of-bounds read in hci_inquiry_result_evt()
    - Bluetooth: Prevent out-of-bounds read in hci_inquiry_result_with_rssi_evt()
    - omapfb: dss: Fix max fclk divider for omap36xx
    - binder: Prevent context manager from incrementing ref 0
    - vgacon...

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

All tasks have been completed and the bug is being set to Fix Released