linux-azure: 4.18.0-1004.4 -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
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boot-testing-requested: true
kernel-stable-master-bug: 1799445
phase: Promoted to proposed
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true
reason:
  promote-to-security: Stakeholder signoff not verified
  promote-to-updates: Stakeholder signoff not verified
  stakeholder-signoff: Waiting for signoff

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

Certification tests not needed for cloud kernels.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.18.0-1004.4 - azure
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

Issue to note in x86_64 (azure):
  ebizzy - failed on Basic_A0, passed on the rest
  monotonic_time - all two tests (or just tsc test) failed on some instances, passed on the rest
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - test skipped due to no KVM support, vmx_control will crash E4 nodes (bug 1747892)
  ubuntu_ltp - test disabled
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - inotify08 (bug 1775784) quotactl01 (bug 1790028) fanotify10 (bug 1802454) msgstress03 (bug 1797341) msgstress04 (bug 1797348)
  ubunut_qrt_apparmor - mmap test timed out on some nodes (bug 1783922)
  ubuntu_unionmount_overlayfs_suite - Rename empty dir and rename back failed (bug 1727290)

Skipped / blacklisted:
  * libhugetlbfs
  * ubuntu_seccomp

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-azure - 4.18.0-1006.6

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linux-azure (4.18.0-1006.6) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * linux-azure: 4.18.0-1006.6 -proposed tracker (LP: #1805244)

  * Accelerated networking (SR-IOV VF) broken in 18.10 daily (LP: #1794477)
    - [Packaging] Move pci-hyperv and autofs4 back to linux-modules

linux-azure (4.18.0-1005.5) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * linux-azure: 4.18.0-1005.5 -proposed tracker (LP: #1802752)

  * [Hyper-V] Fix IRQ spreading on NVMe devices with lower numbers of channels
    (LP: #1802358)
    - SAUCE: genirq/affinity: Spread IRQs to all available NUMA nodes
    - SAUCE: irq/matrix: Split out the CPU selection code into a helper
    - SAUCE: irq/matrix: Spread managed interrupts on allocation
    - SAUCE: genirq/matrix: Improve target CPU selection for managed interrupts.

  [ Ubuntu: 4.18.0-12.13 ]

  * linux: 4.18.0-12.13 -proposed tracker (LP: #1802743)
  * [FEAT] Guest-dedicated Crypto Adapters (LP: #1787405)
    - s390/zcrypt: Add ZAPQ inline function.
    - s390/zcrypt: Review inline assembler constraints.
    - s390/zcrypt: Integrate ap_asm.h into include/asm/ap.h.
    - s390/zcrypt: fix ap_instructions_available() returncodes
    - KVM: s390: vsie: simulate VCPU SIE entry/exit
    - KVM: s390: introduce and use KVM_REQ_VSIE_RESTART
    - KVM: s390: refactor crypto initialization
    - s390: vfio-ap: base implementation of VFIO AP device driver
    - s390: vfio-ap: register matrix device with VFIO mdev framework
    - s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure adapters
    - s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure domains
    - s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure control domains
    - s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interface to view matrix mdev matrix
    - KVM: s390: interface to clear CRYCB masks
    - s390: vfio-ap: implement mediated device open callback
    - s390: vfio-ap: implement VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO ioctl
    - s390: vfio-ap: zeroize the AP queues
    - s390: vfio-ap: implement VFIO_DEVICE_RESET ioctl
    - KVM: s390: Clear Crypto Control Block when using vSIE
    - KVM: s390: vsie: Do the CRYCB validation first
    - KVM: s390: vsie: Make use of CRYCB FORMAT2 clear
    - KVM: s390: vsie: Allow CRYCB FORMAT-2
    - KVM: s390: vsie: allow CRYCB FORMAT-1
    - KVM: s390: vsie: allow CRYCB FORMAT-0
    - KVM: s390: vsie: allow guest FORMAT-0 CRYCB on host FORMAT-1
    - KVM: s390: vsie: allow guest FORMAT-1 CRYCB on host FORMAT-2
    - KVM: s390: vsie: allow guest FORMAT-0 CRYCB on host FORMAT-2
    - KVM: s390: device attrs to enable/disable AP interpretation
    - KVM: s390: CPU model support for AP virtualization
    - s390: doc: detailed specifications for AP virtualization
    - KVM: s390: fix locking for crypto setting error path
    - KVM: s390: Tracing APCB changes
    - s390: vfio-ap: setup APCB mask using KVM dedicated function
    - [Config:] Enable CONFIG_S390_AP_IOMMU and set CONFIG_VFIO_AP to module.
  * Bypass of mount visibility through userns + mount propagation (LP: #1789161)
    - mount: Retest MNT_LOCKED in do_umount
    - mount: Don't allow copying MNT_UNBINDABLE|MNT_LOCKED mounts
  * CVE-2018-18955: nested user namespaces with more than fiv...