Remove vmbus-rdma driver from Xenial kernel

[Marcelo Cerri]

SRU Justification:

Impact: in order to properly support infiniband for Azure A8/A9, H-series, and NC24/NV24 instances, multiple versions of the driver must be maintained and userspace must be responsible for selecting the correct version of the driver.

That's already supported in the linux-azure kernel with the userspace logic implemented in the Windows Azure Linux Agent. The Xenial kernel is carrying a single version of the RDMA which might cause problems if the host OS requires a different version of the driver.

Fix: remove the driver located at "drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/" from the Xenial kernel and keep support to it only in linux-azure.

Testcase: the module "hv_network_direct.ko" should not be included in the linux-image or linux-image-extra packages.

[Marcelo Cerri (mhcerri)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2017-October/087428.html

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-failed-xenial'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

Confirmed that the hv_network_direct module is not shipped anymore with Xenial kernel 4.4.0-101.124.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-101.124

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linux (4.4.0-101.124) xenial; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.4.0-101.124 -proposed tracker (LP: #1731264)

  * s390/mm: fix write access check in gup_huge_pmd() (LP: #1730596)
    - s390/mm: fix write access check in gup_huge_pmd()

linux (4.4.0-100.123) xenial; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.4.0-100.123 -proposed tracker (LP: #1729273)

  * Xenial update to 4.4.95 stable release (LP: #1729107)
    - USB: devio: Revert "USB: devio: Don't corrupt user memory"
    - USB: core: fix out-of-bounds access bug in usb_get_bos_descriptor()
    - USB: serial: metro-usb: add MS7820 device id
    - usb: cdc_acm: Add quirk for Elatec TWN3
    - usb: quirks: add quirk for WORLDE MINI MIDI keyboard
    - usb: hub: Allow reset retry for USB2 devices on connect bounce
    - ALSA: usb-audio: Add native DSD support for Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital
    - can: gs_usb: fix busy loop if no more TX context is available
    - usb: musb: sunxi: Explicitly release USB PHY on exit
    - usb: musb: Check for host-mode using is_host_active() on reset interrupt
    - can: esd_usb2: Fix can_dlc value for received RTR, frames
    - drm/nouveau/bsp/g92: disable by default
    - drm/nouveau/mmu: flush tlbs before deleting page tables
    - ALSA: seq: Enable 'use' locking in all configurations
    - ALSA: hda: Remove superfluous '-' added by printk conversion
    - i2c: ismt: Separate I2C block read from SMBus block read
    - brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const' to reduce stack size
    - bus: mbus: fix window size calculation for 4GB windows
    - clockevents/drivers/cs5535: Improve resilience to spurious interrupts
    - rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem
    - KEYS: encrypted: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload
    - lib/digsig: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload
    - KEYS: don't let add_key() update an uninstantiated key
    - pkcs7: Prevent NULL pointer dereference, since sinfo is not always set.
    - parisc: Avoid trashing sr2 and sr3 in LWS code
    - parisc: Fix double-word compare and exchange in LWS code on 32-bit kernels
    - sched/autogroup: Fix autogroup_move_group() to never skip sched_move_task()
    - f2fs crypto: replace some BUG_ON()'s with error checks
    - f2fs crypto: add missing locking for keyring_key access
    - fscrypt: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload
    - KEYS: Fix race between updating and finding a negative key
    - fscrypto: require write access to mount to set encryption policy
    - FS-Cache: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload
    - Linux 4.4.95

  * Xenial update to 4.4.94 stable release (LP: #1729105)
    - percpu: make this_cpu_generic_read() atomic w.r.t. interrupts
    - drm/dp/mst: save vcpi with payloads
    - MIPS: Fix minimum alignment requirement of IRQ stack
    - sctp: potential read out of bounds in sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled()
    - bpf/verifier: reject BPF_ALU64|BPF_END
    - udpv6: Fix the checksum computation when HW checksum does not apply
    - ip6_gre: skb_push ipv6hdr before packing the header in ip6gre_header
    - net: emac: Fix napi poll list corruption
    - packet: hold bind lock when rebinding to fa...