linux-azure: 4.11.0-1015.15 -proposed tracker

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

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
-- swm properties --
boot-testing-requested: true
kernel-stable-master-bug: 1728927
phase: Released
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

No bug was tagged with verification-needed.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.11.0-1015.15 - azure
Regression test CMPL.

Issue to note in x86_64 (azure):
  ebizzy - failed on two instances (Basic_A0, Standard_A0), passed on the rest
  libhugetlbfs - 1 failed (brk_near_huge, bug 1653597), Killed by signal 1, bad config 3, passed on the rest
  monotonic_time - all three tests (or just tsc test) failed on some instances, passed on the rest
  ubuntu_kvm_smoke_test - CPU does not support KVM extensions
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - test disabled
  ubuntu_ltp - test disabled
  ubuntu_lttng_smoke_test - some instances failed with bug 1732651, passed on the rest
  ubuntu_lxc - lxc-test-ubuntu failed (Failed to start networking in ubuntu-cloud container, Failed creating ubuntu-cloud container due to too many open files), GPG key fetch failure, passed on the rest
  ubuntu_qrt_kernel_hardening - failed on only one instance (Standard_A4m_v2)
  ubuntu_unionmount_overlayfs_suite - bug 1727290

[Joshua R. Poulson (jrp)]

The KVM tests should only be run on instance sizes that have enabled nested virtualization, the Dv3 and Ev3 sizes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-azure - 4.11.0-1015.15

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linux-azure (4.11.0-1015.15) xenial; urgency=low

  * linux-azure: 4.11.0-1015.15 -proposed tracker (LP: #1728930)

  * CVE-2017-12188
    - KVM: nVMX: update last_nonleaf_level when initializing nested EPT
    - KVM: MMU: always terminate page walks at level 1

 -- Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:43:02 +0100

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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