xenial/linux-kvm: 4.4.0-1061.68 -proposed tracker

[Khaled El Mously]

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
packages:
  main: linux-kvm
  meta: linux-meta-kvm
phase: Holding before Promote to Updates
phase-changed: Monday, 11. November 2019 10:47 UTC
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true
variant: debs

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.4.0-1060.67 - kvm
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

Issue to note in amd64:
  ubuntu_ecryptfs - miscdev-bad-count.sh and lp-994247 on 5 filesystems (bug 1837523)
  ubuntu_kernel_selftests - psock_tpacket in net failed (bug 1812176) test_bpf in net (bug 1812189) test_user_copy return code in user (bug 1812352)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - apic timeouted (bug 1748103) debug (bug 1821906) memory (bug 1845687) port80 (bug 1748105) vmx (bug 1821394) vmx_apic_passthrough_thread (bug 1822309) vmx_hlt_with_rvi_test (bug 1822308)
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - fallocate04, fallocate05, fdatasync03, fremovexattr01, fremovexattr02, fsync01, fsync04, msync04, preadv03, preadv03_64, preadv203, preadv203_64, pwritev03, pwritev03_64, sync03, syncfs01, sync_file_range02, copy_file_range01 (bug 1842270) fsetxattr01, fgetxattr01, fanotify13, fanotify14, lremovexattr01, setxattr01 (bug 1842270) fanotify06 (bug 1833028) fanotify10 (bug 1802454) quotactl02 / quotactl03 (bug 1848698) msgstress03 (bug 1783881) pkey01 failure cannot be reproduced
  ubuntu_lxc - ERROR: Unable to fetch GPG key from keyserver. proxy issue for Intel Cloud (bug 1838966)
  xfstests - no scratch drive available for the test

Skipped / blacklisted:
  * ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_bpf
  * ubuntu_fan_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_ftrace_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_ltp
  * ubuntu_lttng_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_seccomp
  * ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-kvm - 4.4.0-1062.69

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linux-kvm (4.4.0-1062.69) xenial; urgency=medium

  * CVE-2019-11135
    - [Config] Disable TSX by default when possible

  [ Ubuntu: 4.4.0-168.197 ]

  * CVE-2018-12207
    - KVM: x86: MMU: Encapsulate the type of rmap-chain head in a new struct
    - KVM: x86: MMU: Consolidate quickly_check_mmio_pf() and is_mmio_page_fault()
    - KVM: x86: MMU: Move handle_mmio_page_fault() call to kvm_mmu_page_fault()
    - KVM: MMU: rename has_wrprotected_page to mmu_gfn_lpage_is_disallowed
    - KVM: MMU: introduce kvm_mmu_gfn_{allow,disallow}_lpage
    - KVM: x86: MMU: Make mmu_set_spte() return emulate value
    - KVM: x86: MMU: Move initialization of parent_ptes out from
      kvm_mmu_alloc_page()
    - KVM: x86: MMU: always set accessed bit in shadow PTEs
    - KVM: x86: MMU: Move parent_pte handling from kvm_mmu_get_page() to
      link_shadow_page()
    - KVM: x86: MMU: Remove unused parameter parent_pte from kvm_mmu_get_page()
    - KVM: x86: simplify ept_misconfig
    - KVM: x86: extend usage of RET_MMIO_PF_* constants
    - KVM: MMU: drop vcpu param in gpte_access
    - kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex
    - kvm: x86: Do not release the page inside mmu_set_spte()
    - KVM: x86: make FNAME(fetch) and __direct_map more similar
    - KVM: x86: remove now unneeded hugepage gfn adjustment
    - KVM: x86: change kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn BUG_ON to WARN_ON
    - KVM: x86: add tracepoints around __direct_map and FNAME(fetch)
    - SAUCE: KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is
      active
    - SAUCE: x86: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure
    - SAUCE: kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation
    - SAUCE: kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads
    - SAUCE: kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages
    - SAUCE: cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers
    - SAUCE: kvm: x86: mmu: Apply global mitigations knob to ITLB_MULTIHIT
  * CVE-2019-11135
    - KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hosts
    - KVM: x86: use Intel speculation bugs and features as derived in generic x86
      code
    - x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR
    - x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr()
    - x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default
    - x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort
    - x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort
    - kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled
    - x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
    - x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
    - x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto
    - SAUCE: x86/speculation/taa: Call tsx_init()
    - SAUCE: x86/cpu: Include cpu header from bugs.c
    - [Config] Disable TSX by default when possible
  * CVE-2019-0154
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915: Lower RM timeout to avoid DSI hard hangs
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA
    - SAUCE: drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA
  * CVE-2019-0155
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915/gtt: Add read only pages to gen8_pte_encode
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm...