linux-gcp: 4.15.0-1018.19~16.04.2 -proposed tracker

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza]

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boot-testing-requested: true
kernel-stable-master-bug: 1787149
phase: Released
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

.15.0-1018.19~16.04.2 - gcp
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

Issue to note in gcp:
  libhugetlbfs - 1 failed , 1 killed by signal, 3 bad config
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - failed due to no KVM support
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - bind03 failed (bug 1788351) execveat03 failed (bug 1786729) inotify08 failed with X/X-LTS/X-HWE/A/B kernel (bug 1775784)
  ubuntu_unionmount_overlayfs_suite - File unexpectedly on union layer (bug 1751243)

Skipped / blacklisted:
 * ubuntu_ltp
 * ubuntu_nbd_smoke_test
 * ubuntu_seccomp
 * ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test

Note: mark this task as Incomplete due to execveat03 failure in ubuntu_ltp_syscalls (bug 1786729)

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

According to the following comment made by Seth, the execveat03 issue is not critical and could be fixed in a upcoming release.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1786729/comments/4

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-gcp - 4.15.0-1018.19~16.04.2

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linux-gcp (4.15.0-1018.19~16.04.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * linux-gcp: 4.15.0-1018.19~16.04.2 -proposed tracker (LP: #1787162)

  * linux-gcp: 4.15.0-1018.19 -proposed tracker (LP: #1787156)

  * linux-gcp: add a signed kernel (LP: #1782557)
    - [Configuration] enable EFI signing support

  [ Ubuntu: 4.15.0-33.36 ]

  * linux: 4.15.0-33.36 -proposed tracker (LP: #1787149)
  * RTNL assertion failure on ipvlan (LP: #1776927)
    - ipvlan: drop ipv6 dependency
    - ipvlan: use per device spinlock to protect addrs list updates
    - SAUCE: fix warning from "ipvlan: drop ipv6 dependency"
  * ubuntu_bpf_jit test failed on Bionic s390x systems (LP: #1753941)
    - test_bpf: flag tests that cannot be jited on s390
  * HDMI/DP audio can't work on the laptop of Dell Latitude 5495 (LP: #1782689)
    - drm/nouveau: fix nouveau_dsm_get_client_id()'s return type
    - drm/radeon: fix radeon_atpx_get_client_id()'s return type
    - drm/amdgpu: fix amdgpu_atpx_get_client_id()'s return type
    - platform/x86: apple-gmux: fix gmux_get_client_id()'s return type
    - ALSA: hda: use PCI_BASE_CLASS_DISPLAY to replace PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA
    - vga_switcheroo: set audio client id according to bound GPU id
  * locking sockets broken due to missing AppArmor socket mediation patches
    (LP: #1780227)
    - UBUNTU SAUCE: apparmor: fix apparmor mediating locking non-fs, unix sockets
  * Update2 for ocxl driver (LP: #1781436)
    - ocxl: Fix page fault handler in case of fault on dying process
  * netns: unable to follow an interface that moves to another netns
    (LP: #1774225)
    - net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitions
    - dev: always advertise the new nsid when the netns iface changes
    - dev: advertise the new ifindex when the netns iface changes
  * [Bionic] Disk IO hangs when using BFQ as io scheduler (LP: #1780066)
    - block, bfq: fix occurrences of request finish method's old name
    - block, bfq: remove batches of confusing ifdefs
    - block, bfq: add requeue-request hook
  * HP ProBook 455 G5 needs mute-led-gpio fixup (LP: #1781763)
    - ALSA: hda: add mute led support for HP ProBook 455 G5
  * [Bionic] bug fixes to improve stability of the ThunderX2 i2c driver
    (LP: #1781476)
    - i2c: xlp9xx: Fix issue seen when updating receive length
    - i2c: xlp9xx: Make sure the transfer size is not more than
      I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_SIZE
  * x86/kvm: fix LAPIC timer drift when guest uses periodic mode (LP: #1778486)
    - x86/kvm: fix LAPIC timer drift when guest uses periodic mode
  * Please include ax88179_178a and r8152 modules in d-i udeb (LP: #1771823)
    - [Config:] d-i: Add ax88179_178a and r8152 to nic-modules
  * Nvidia fails after switching its mode (LP: #1778658)
    - PCI: Restore config space on runtime resume despite being unbound
  * Kernel error "task zfs:pid blocked for more than 120 seconds" (LP: #1781364)
    - SAUCE: (noup) zfs to 0.7.5-1ubuntu16.3
  * CVE-2018-12232
    - PATCH 1/1] socket: close race condition between sock_close() and
      sockfs_setattr()
  * CVE-2018-10323
    - xfs: set format back to extents if xfs_bmap_...

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

The package has been published and the bug is being set to Fix Released