xenial/linux: 4.4.0-177.207 -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.

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bugs-spammed: true
packages:
  main: linux
  meta: linux-meta
  signed: linux-signed
phase: Complete
phase-changed: Tuesday, 07. April 2020 13:48 UTC
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true
reason: {}
trackers:
  trusty/linux-aws: bug 1867241
  trusty/linux-lts-xenial: bug 1867242
  xenial/linux-aws: bug 1867231
  xenial/linux-cascade: bug 1867233
  xenial/linux-fips: bug 1867240
  xenial/linux-kvm: bug 1867234
  xenial/linux-raspi2: bug 1867236
  xenial/linux-snapdragon: bug 1867239
  xenial/linux/caracalla-kernel: bug 1867227
  xenial/linux/pc-kernel: bug 1867228
  xenial/linux/stlouis-kernel: bug 1867229
variant: debs

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

It looks like the commit below was miss merged. It adds an entire file arch/x86/vmx/vmx.c whereas the original patch only adds two lines:

  commit 95ac92602932bf1d59630949faaef368540bfb11
  Author: Sean Christopherson <email address hidden>
  Date: Tue Dec 10 15:24:32 2019 -0800

    KVM: VMX: Add non-canonical check on writes to RTIT address MSRs

    BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864775

    [ Upstream commit fe6ed369fca98e99df55c932b85782a5687526b5 ]

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Apparently this fix is benignly applied, and was reverted in the next stable update. We can let it slide this time.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.4.0-177.207 - generic
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

56 / 59 tests were run, missing: ubuntu_xfstests_btrfs, ubuntu_xfstests_ext4, ubuntu_xfstests_xfs
Issue to note in amd64:
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - apic (bug 1748103) debug (bug 1821906) vmx (bug 1821394) vmx_host_state_area (bug 1866585) vmx_intr_window_test (bug 1866586) vmx_nm_test (bug 1866587) vmx_nmi_window_test (bug 1866588) vmx_pending_event_test (bug 1866591)
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - btrfs fill_fs test in fallocate06 (bug 1866323) fanotify06 (bug 1833028) fanotify10 (bug 1802454) kill11 (bug 1865965)
  ubuntu_unionmount_ovlfs - failed with the latest code in upstream (bug 1854298)

51 / 54 tests were run, missing: ubuntu_xfstests_btrfs, ubuntu_xfstests_ext4, ubuntu_xfstests_xfs
Issue to note in arm64:
  hwclock - issue for HP m400 (bug 1716603)
  ubuntu_kernel_selftests - cpu-hotplug failed on moonshot (bug 1809701)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - unable to create KVM with uvtool (bug 1749427)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - gicv2-mmio on X-ARM64 (bug 1828165) gicv2-mmio-3p (bug 1828027) gicv2-mmio-up (bug 1828026) pmu on ms10-34-mcdivittB0-kernel (bug 1751000)
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - btrfs fill_fs test in fallocate06 (bug 1866323) fanotify06 (bug 1833028) fanotify10 (bug 1802454) kill11 (bug 1865965)
  ubuntu_unionmount_ovlfs - failed with commit dc24a45a upstream (bug 1868212)

50 / 54 tests were run, missing: ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests, ubuntu_xfstests_btrfs, ubuntu_xfstests_ext4, ubuntu_xfstests_xfs
Issue to note in i386:
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - btrfs fill_fs test in fallocate06 (bug 1866323) fanotify06 (bug 1833028) fanotify10 (bug 1802454) kill11 (bug 1865965)
  ubuntu_seccomp - FAILURE bpf_sim resulted in ALLOW (bug 1866041)
  ubuntu_unionmount_ovlfs - failed with the latest code in upstream (bug 1854298)

52 / 55 tests were run, missing: ubuntu_xfstests_btrfs, ubuntu_xfstests_ext4, ubuntu_xfstests_xfs
Issue to note in ppc64le (P8):
  ubuntu_btrfs_kernel_fixes - Unable to mount a btrfs filesystem smaller than 320M on Xenial P8 (bug 1813863)
  ubuntu_fan_smoke_test - Failed to fetch file from http://ports.ubuntu.com (bug 1864140)
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - copy_file_range01, fallocate04, fanotify13, fanotify14, fanotify15, fdatasync03, fgetxattr01,fremovexattr01, fremovexattr02, fsetxattr01, fsync01, fsync04, lremovexattr01, msync04, preadv03, preadv03_64, preadv203, preadv203_64, pwritev03, pwritev03_64, pwritev03, pwritev03_64, setxattr01, sync03, syncfs01 (bug 1842270) btrfs fill_fs test in fallocate06 (bug 1866323) fanotify06 (bug 1833028) fanotify10 (bug 1802454) move_pages12 (bug 1831043) kill11 (bug 1865965)
  ubuntu_seccomp - 36-sim-ipc_syscalls, 37-sim-ipc_syscalls_be failed on s390x / PowerPC (bug 1850904) FAILURE bpf_sim resulted in ALLOW (bug 1866041)
  ubuntu_unionmount_ovlfs - failed with the latest code in upstream (bug 1854298)

Issue to note in s390x (KVM):
  libhugetlbfs - failed 5 (Address is not hugepage, Heap not on hugepages) killed by signal 1 bad config 1
  ubuntu_bpf_jit - 4 failures reported for X s390x (bug 1768452)
  ubuntu_kernel_selftests - test_bpf in net (bug 1768452)
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - uvtool issue (bug 1729854)
  ubuntu_...

[Devices Certification Bot (ce-certification-qa)]

Kernel deb testing completes, no regressions found. Ready for Updates. Results here: https://trello.com/c/HcUJr8M8/318-xenial-linux-image-440-177-generic-440-177207

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-177.207

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linux (4.4.0-177.207) xenial; urgency=medium

  * xenial/linux: 4.4.0-177.207 -proposed tracker (LP: #1867243)

  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - [Packaging] resync getabis
    - [Packaging] update helper scripts

  * Xenial update: 4.4.214 upstream stable release (LP: #1864775)
    - media: iguanair: fix endpoint sanity check
    - x86/cpu: Update cached HLE state on write to TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR
    - sparc32: fix struct ipc64_perm type definition
    - ASoC: qcom: Fix of-node refcount unbalance to link->codec_of_node
    - cls_rsvp: fix rsvp_policy
    - net: hsr: fix possible NULL deref in hsr_handle_frame()
    - net_sched: fix an OOB access in cls_tcindex
    - tcp: clear tp->total_retrans in tcp_disconnect()
    - tcp: clear tp->segs_{in|out} in tcp_disconnect()
    - media: uvcvideo: Avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed USB descriptors
    - mfd: dln2: More sanity checking for endpoints
    - brcmfmac: Fix memory leak in brcmf_usbdev_qinit
    - usb: gadget: legacy: set max_speed to super-speed
    - usb: gadget: f_ncm: Use atomic_t to track in-flight request
    - usb: gadget: f_ecm: Use atomic_t to track in-flight request
    - ALSA: dummy: Fix PCM format loop in proc output
    - lib/test_kasan.c: fix memory leak in kmalloc_oob_krealloc_more()
    - powerpc/pseries: Advance pfn if section is not present in lmb_is_removable()
    - mmc: spi: Toggle SPI polarity, do not hardcode it
    - PCI: keystone: Fix link training retries initiation
    - crypto: api - Check spawn->alg under lock in crypto_drop_spawn
    - scsi: qla2xxx: Fix mtcp dump collection failure
    - power: supply: ltc2941-battery-gauge: fix use-after-free
    - of: Add OF_DMA_DEFAULT_COHERENT & select it on powerpc
    - dm space map common: fix to ensure new block isn't already in use
    - crypto: pcrypt - Do not clear MAY_SLEEP flag in original request
    - crypto: api - Fix race condition in crypto_spawn_alg
    - crypto: picoxcell - adjust the position of tasklet_init and fix missed
      tasklet_kill
    - btrfs: set trans->drity in btrfs_commit_transaction
    - ARM: tegra: Enable PLLP bypass during Tegra124 LP1
    - mwifiex: fix unbalanced locking in mwifiex_process_country_ie()
    - sunrpc: expiry_time should be seconds not timeval
    - KVM: x86: Refactor prefix decoding to prevent Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
    - KVM: x86: Protect DR-based index computations from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
    - KVM: x86: Protect kvm_hv_msr_[get|set]_crash_data() from Spectre-v1/L1TF
      attacks
    - KVM: x86: Protect ioapic_write_indirect() from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
    - KVM: x86: Protect MSR-based index computations in pmu.h from Spectre-v1/L1TF
      attacks
    - KVM: x86: Protect ioapic_read_indirect() from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
    - KVM: x86: Protect MSR-based index computations from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
      in x86.c
    - KVM: x86: Protect x86_decode_insn from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
    - KVM: x86: Protect MSR-based index computations in fixed_msr_to_seg_unit()
      from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Uninit vCPU if vcore creation fails
    - KVM:...

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

All tasks have been completed and the bug is being set to Fix Released