linux: 4.4.0-134.160 -proposed tracker

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza]

This bug is for tracking the <version to be filled> 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

backports: bug 1787178 (linux-aws), bug 1787179 (linux-lts-xenial)
derivatives: bug 1787180 (linux-aws), bug 1787181 (linux-euclid), bug 1787182 (linux-kvm), bug 1787183 (linux-raspi2), bug 1787184 (linux-snapdragon)
-- swm properties --
boot-testing-requested: true
bugs-spammed: true
phase: Released
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Hardware Certification have begun testing this -proposed kernel.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

Hardware Certification have completed testing this -proposed kernel. No regressions were observed, results are available here: http://people.canonical.com/~hwcert/sru-testing/xenial/4.4.0-134.160/xenial-proposed-published.html

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.4.0-134.160 - lowlatency
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

Test case ubuntu_ramfs_stress does not exist in the database, please check
42 / 49 tests were run, missing: ubuntu_bpf_jit, ubuntu_cts_kernel, ubuntu_cve_kernel, ubuntu_ecryptfs, ubuntu_ltp_syscalls, ubuntu_zfs_fstest, ubuntu_zfs_xfs_generic, xfstests
Issue to note in amd64:
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - 18 failed on groucho

4.4.0-134.160 - generic
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

48 / 49 tests were run, missing: ubuntu_vfat_stress
Issue to note in amd64:
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - 29 failed on amaura, 21 failed on michael, 28 failed on pepe
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - bind03 failed (bug 1788351) execveat03 failed (bug 1786729) inotify07 failed with X/X-LTS/A kernel (bug 1774387) inotify08 failed with X/X-LTS/X-HWE/A kernel (bug 1775784) fanotify07/fanotify08 test timeouted (bug 1775165) fanotify09 timeouted (bug 1775153)
  ubuntu_zram_smoke_test - zram test timed out (bug 1787076)
  xfstests - xfs generic/476 timed out

42 / 44 tests were run, missing: ubuntu_quota_smoke_test, xfstests
Issue to note in arm64:
  hwclock - issue for HP m400 (bug 1716603)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - unable to create KVM with uvtool (bug 1749427)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - pmu on ms10-34-mcdivittB0-kernel (bug 1751000) gicv2-ipi and gicv2-active on starmie
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - bind03 failed (bug 1788351) execveat03 failed (bug 1786729) inotify07 failed with X/X-LTS/A kernel (bug 1774387) inotify08 failed with X/X-LTS/X-HWE/A kernel (bug 1775784) fanotify07/fanotify08 test timeouted (bug 1775165) fanotify09 timeouted (bug 1775153)
  ubuntu_qrt_kernel_hardening - test setup failed, network issue
  ubuntu_qrt_kernel_panic - test setup failed, network issue
  ubuntu_zram_smoke_test - zram test timed out (bug 1787076)

Issue to note in i386:
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - 25 failed on pepe
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - bind03 failed (bug 1788351) execveat03 failed (bug 1786729) inotify07 failed with X/X-LTS/A kernel (bug 1774387) inotify08 failed with X/X-LTS/X-HWE/A kernel (bug 1775784) fanotify07/fanotify08 test timeouted (bug 1775165) fanotify09 timeouted (bug 1775153)
  xfstests - xfs generic/308 timed out, bug 1738152

Issue to note in s390x (Ubuntu on LPAR):
  libhugetlbfs - failed 11 killed by signal 7 bad config 1
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - unable to insert test_bpf on Xenial s390x (bug 1768452)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - uvtool issue (bug 1729854)
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - bind03 failed (bug 1788351) execveat03 failed (bug 1786729) inotify07 failed with X/X-LTS/A kernel (bug 1774387) inotify08 failed with X/X-LTS/X-HWE/A kernel (bug 1775784) fanotify07/fanotify08 test timeouted (bug 1775165) fanotify09 timeouted (bug 1775153)
  ubuntu_lxc - lxc-test-ubuntu failed (Failed to start networking in ubuntu-cloud container)

Issue to note in s390x (zKVM):
  libhugetlbfs - failed 11 killed by signal 7 bad config 1
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - unable to insert test_bpf on Xenial s390x (bug 1768452)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - uvtool issue (bug 1729854)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - 12 failed
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - bind03 failed (bug 1788351) execveat03 failed (bug 1786729) inotify07 failed with X/X-LTS/A kernel (bug 1...

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

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

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

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

Verification tests were successful.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-134.160

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linux (4.4.0-134.160) xenial; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.4.0-134.160 -proposed tracker (LP: #1787177)

  * locking sockets broken due to missing AppArmor socket mediation patches
    (LP: #1780227)
    - UBUNTU SAUCE: apparmor: fix apparmor mediating locking non-fs, unix sockets

  * Backport namespaced fscaps to xenial 4.4 (LP: #1778286)
    - Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
    - commoncap: move assignment of fs_ns to avoid null pointer dereference
    - capabilities: fix buffer overread on very short xattr
    - commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure.

  * Xenial update to 4.4.140 stable release (LP: #1784409)
    - usb: cdc_acm: Add quirk for Uniden UBC125 scanner
    - USB: serial: cp210x: add CESINEL device ids
    - USB: serial: cp210x: add Silicon Labs IDs for Windows Update
    - n_tty: Fix stall at n_tty_receive_char_special().
    - staging: android: ion: Return an ERR_PTR in ion_map_kernel
    - n_tty: Access echo_* variables carefully.
    - x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end
    - ath10k: fix rfc1042 header retrieval in QCA4019 with eth decap mode
    - i2c: rcar: fix resume by always initializing registers before transfer
    - ipv4: Fix error return value in fib_convert_metrics()
    - kprobes/x86: Do not modify singlestep buffer while resuming
    - nvme-pci: initialize queue memory before interrupts
    - netfilter: nf_tables: use WARN_ON_ONCE instead of BUG_ON in nft_do_chain()
    - ARM: dts: imx6q: Use correct SDMA script for SPI5 core
    - ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA
    - mm: hugetlb: yield when prepping struct pages
    - tracing: Fix missing return symbol in function_graph output
    - scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse
    - s390: Correct register corruption in critical section cleanup
    - drbd: fix access after free
    - cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option
    - jbd2: don't mark block as modified if the handle is out of credits
    - ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg
      descriptors
    - ext4: always check block group bounds in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
    - ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid
    - ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()
    - ext4: include the illegal physical block in the bad map ext4_error msg
    - ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data
    - ext4: add more inode number paranoia checks
    - ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock
    - ext4: check superblock mapped prior to committing
    - HID: i2c-hid: Fix "incomplete report" noise
    - HID: hiddev: fix potential Spectre v1
    - HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user()
    - x86/mce: Detect local MCEs properly
    - x86/mce: Fix incorrect "Machine check from unknown source" message
    - media: cx25840: Use subdev host data for PLL override
    - mm, page_alloc: do not break __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset
    - dm bufio: avoid sleeping while holding the dm_bufio lock
    - dm bufio: drop the lock when doing GFP_NOIO allocation
    - mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spa...

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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