bionic/linux-kvm: 4.15.0-1040.40 -proposed tracker

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza]

This bug will contain status and test results related to a kernel source (or snap) as stated in the title.

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
packages:
  main: linux-kvm
  meta: linux-meta-kvm
phase: Signoff
phase-changed: Friday, 26. July 2019 17:11 UTC
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true
reason:
  regression-testing: Ongoing -- testing in progress
  security-signoff: Pending -- waiting for signoff
  verification-testing: Ongoing -- testing in progress
variant: debs

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

4.15.0-1040.40 - kvm
Regression test CMPL, RTB.

Issue to note in amd64:
  ubuntu_bpf - test failed on KVM kernels (bug 1833396)
  ubuntu_kernel_selftests - test_bpf in net (bug 1812189) psock_tpacket in net failed (bug 1812176) RTNETLINK in net (bug 1812194) global.get_metadata in seccomp (bug 1811057) user_copy in user skipped, ftrace (bug 1812318)
  ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests - apic timeouted (bug 1748103) apic-split timeouted (bug 1821390) port80 (bug 1748105) vmx (bug 1821394)
  ubuntu_ltp - proc01 (bug 1829849) quota_remount_test01 (bug 1830670) hackbench01 (bug 1830675) netns_sysfs (bug 1830678) leapsec_timer (bug 1829971) getaddrinfo_01 (bug 1829995) ltp_acpi (bug 1830676) controller test timeout (bug 1839144) cve test failed to fork (bug 1839143)
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls - copy_file_range02 (bug 1839130) fanotify09-1 (bug 1804594) leapsec01 (bug 1839135) msgstress03 (bug 1797341) quotactl01, quotactl02, quotactl03 (bug 1797325) sync_file_range02 (bug 1819116) timer_create01 (bug 1838961)
  ubuntu_quota_smoke_test - failed with KVM kernel (bug 1784535)
  ubuntu_sysdig_smoke_test - Unable to insert sysdig_probe module on B-KVM kernel (bug 1766565)
  xfstests - failed because no scratch drive

Skipped / blacklisted:
  * libhugetlbfs
  * ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_ecryptfs
  * ubuntu_fan_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_ftrace_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_lttng_smoke_test
  * ubuntu_seccomp

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-kvm - 4.15.0-1042.42

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linux-kvm (4.15.0-1042.42) bionic; urgency=medium

  * bionic/linux-kvm: 4.15.0-1042.42 -proposed tracker (LP: #1839276)

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

  [ Ubuntu: 4.15.0-58.64 ]

  * unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c (IP:
    iget5_locked+0x9e/0x1f0) (LP: #1838982)
    - Revert "ovl: set I_CREATING on inode being created"
    - Revert "new primitive: discard_new_inode()"

linux-kvm (4.15.0-1041.41) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Ubuntu: 4.15.0-57.63 ]

  * CVE-2019-1125
    - x86/cpufeatures: Carve out CQM features retrieval
    - x86/cpufeatures: Combine word 11 and 12 into a new scattered features word
    - x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations
    - x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations
    - x86/entry/64: Use JMP instead of JMPQ
    - x86/speculation/swapgs: Exclude ATOMs from speculation through SWAPGS
  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - update dkms package versions

linux-kvm (4.15.0-1040.40) bionic; urgency=medium

  * bionic/linux-kvm: 4.15.0-1040.40 -proposed tracker (LP: #1837613)

  * Build Nvidia drivers in conjunction with kernel (LP: #1764792)
    - [Packaging] nvidia -- build and sign nvidia packages and ship signatures

  * zfs/spl build in conjunction with the kernel from DKMS source (LP: #1807378)
    - [Packaging] dkms -- add missing build dependencies

  * linux-kvm: please support kexec (LP: #1799791)
    - [Config]: enable KEXEC and KEXEC_FILE

  [ Ubuntu: 4.15.0-56.62 ]

  * bionic/linux: 4.15.0-56.62 -proposed tracker (LP: #1837626)
  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - [Packaging] resync git-ubuntu-log
    - [Packaging] update helper scripts
  * CVE-2019-2101
    - media: uvcvideo: Fix 'type' check leading to overflow
  * hibmc-drm Causes Unreadable Display for Huawei amd64 Servers (LP: #1762940)
    - [Config] Set CONFIG_DRM_HISI_HIBMC to arm64 only
    - SAUCE: Make CONFIG_DRM_HISI_HIBMC depend on ARM64
  * Bionic: support for Solarflare X2542 network adapter (sfc driver)
    (LP: #1836635)
    - sfc: make mem_bar a function rather than a constant
    - sfc: support VI strides other than 8k
    - sfc: add Medford2 (SFC9250) PCI Device IDs
    - sfc: improve PTP error reporting
    - sfc: update EF10 register definitions
    - sfc: populate the timer reload field
    - sfc: update MCDI protocol headers
    - sfc: support variable number of MAC stats
    - sfc: expose FEC stats on Medford2
    - sfc: expose CTPIO stats on NICs that support them
    - sfc: basic MCDI mapping of 25/50/100G link speeds
    - sfc: support the ethtool ksettings API properly so that 25/50/100G works
    - sfc: add bits for 25/50/100G supported/advertised speeds
    - sfc: remove tx and MCDI handling from NAPI budget consideration
    - sfc: handle TX timestamps in the normal data path
    - sfc: add function to determine which TX timestamping method to use
    - sfc: use main datapath for HW timestamps if available
    - sfc: only enable TX timestamping if the adapter is licensed for it
    - sfc: MAC TX timestamp handling on t...