linux: 4.11.0-11.16 -proposed tracker

[Andy Whitcroft]

This bug is for tracking the 4.11.0-11.16 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

-- swm properties --
boot-testing-requested: true
phase: Promoted to proposed
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.11.0-11.16 - generic
Regression test CMPL.
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/testing/tracker-index.html

Issue to note in amd64:
  hwclock - lodygin will have time changed to 2080, not a regression
  monotonic_time - failed on lodygin only
  ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test - failed on lodygin only
  ubuntu_bpf - patch failed to apply, test case issue
  ubuntu_cts_kernel - perf tool issue, bug 1704699
  ubuntu_kernel_selftests - memfd / net failed, test case issue
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - pku, svm failed
  ubuntu_lttng_smoke_test - tracer not available, bug 1704720
  ubuntu_lxc - Failed to start networking in ubuntu-cloud container
  ubuntu_seccomp - TRAP.handler failed
  ubuntu_unionmount_overlayfs_suite - failed on michael but passed on archytas
  xfstests - btrfs, xfs failed, not a regression

Issue to note in arm64:
  hwclock - failed to change time
  libhugetlbfs - failed 5, killed by signal 7, bad config 1
  ubuntu_bpf - patch failed to apply
  ubuntu_cts_kernel - perf tool issue, bug 1704699
  ubuntu_kernel_selftests - bug 1680507, memfd / net failed, test case issue
  ubuntu_lttng_smoke_test - tracer not available, bug 1704720
  ubuntu_zfs_xfs_generic - test 079, 317 failed

Issue to note in i386:
  libhugetlbfs - failed 8, killed by signal 10, bad config 1
  ubuntu_lttng_smoke_test - tracer not available, bug 1704720

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.11.0-13.19

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linux (4.11.0-13.19) artful; urgency=low

  * CVE-2017-7533
    - dentry name snapshots

linux (4.11.0-12.18) artful; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.11.0-12.18 -proposed tracker (LP: #1707635)
    - no change rebuild to pick up the new binutils.

  * Adt tests of src:linux time out often on armhf lxc containers (LP: #1705495)
    - [Packaging] tests -- reduce rebuild test to one flavour
    - [Packaging] tests -- reduce rebuild test to one flavour -- use filter

  * [ARM64] config EDAC_GHES=y depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC=y (LP: #1706141)
    - [Config] set EDAC_MM_EDAC=y for ARM64

  * [Hyper-V] hv_netvsc: Exclude non-TCP port numbers from vRSS hashing
    (LP: #1690174)
    - hv_netvsc: Exclude non-TCP port numbers from vRSS hashing

  * ath10k doesn't report full RSSI information (LP: #1706531)
    - ath10k: add per chain RSSI reporting

  * ideapad_laptop don't support v310-14isk (LP: #1705378)
    - platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Add several models to no_hw_rfkill

  * Ubuntu 16.04.3: Qemu fails on P9 (LP: #1686019)
    - KVM: PPC: Pass kvm* to kvmppc_find_table()
    - KVM: PPC: Use preregistered memory API to access TCE list
    - KVM: PPC: VFIO: Add in-kernel acceleration for VFIO
    - powerpc/powernv/iommu: Add real mode version of iommu_table_ops::exchange()
    - powerpc/iommu/vfio_spapr_tce: Cleanup iommu_table disposal
    - powerpc/vfio_spapr_tce: Add reference counting to iommu_table
    - powerpc/mmu: Add real mode support for IOMMU preregistered memory
    - KVM: PPC: Reserve KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO capability number
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add radix checks in real-mode hypercall handlers

  * hns: ethtool selftest crashes system (LP: #1705712)
    - net/hns:bugfix of ethtool -t phy self_test

  * ThunderX: soft lockup on 4.8+ kernels when running qemu-efi with vhost=on
    (LP: #1673564)
    - KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Use PREbits to infer the number of ICH_APxRn_EL2
      registers
    - KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Fix nr_pre_bits bitfield extraction
    - arm64: Add a facility to turn an ESR syndrome into a sysreg encoding
    - KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Add accessors for the ICH_APxRn_EL2 registers
    - KVM: arm64: Make kvm_condition_valid32() accessible from EL2
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add hook to handle guest GICv3 sysreg accesses at EL2
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_BPR1_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_IGRPEN1_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_IAR1_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_EOIR1_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_AP1Rn_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_HPPIR1_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Enable trapping of Group-1 system registers
    - KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-1 sysreg trapping via command-line
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_BPR0_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_IGNREN0_EL1 handler
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Add misc Group-0 handlers
    - KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Enable trapping of Group-0 system registers
    - KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-0 sysreg trapping via command-line
    - arm64: Add MIDR values for Cavium cn83XX SoCs
    - arm64: Add wor...