linux: 4.17.0-6.7 -proposed tracker

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

This bug is for tracking the 4.17.0-6.7 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 --
phase: Released
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

No regressions against bionic or other kernels. Other failures investigated and dismissed as kernel problems or regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.17.0-6.7

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linux (4.17.0-6.7) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.17.0-6.7 -proposed tracker (LP: #1783396)

  * [Regression] EXT4-fs error (device sda2): ext4_validate_block_bitmap:383:
    comm stress-ng: bg 4705: bad block bitmap checksum (LP: #1781709)
    - SAUCE: Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: ext4: fix ext4_validate_inode_bitmap: comm
      stress-ng: Corrupt inode bitmap"
    - SAUCE: ext4: check for allocation block validity with block group locked

  * Cosmic update to 4.17.9 stable release (LP: #1783201)
    - userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: fix userfaultfd_huge_must_wait() pte access
    - mm: hugetlb: yield when prepping struct pages
    - mm: teach dump_page() to correctly output poisoned struct pages
    - PCI / ACPI / PM: Resume bridges w/o drivers on suspend-to-RAM
    - ACPICA: Drop leading newlines from error messages
    - ACPI / battery: Safe unregistering of hooks
    - drm/amdgpu: Make struct amdgpu_atif private to amdgpu_acpi.c
    - tracing: Avoid string overflow
    - tracing: Fix missing return symbol in function_graph output
    - scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse
    - scsi: aacraid: Fix PD performance regression over incorrect qd being set
    - scsi: target: Fix truncated PR-in ReadKeys response
    - s390: Correct register corruption in critical section cleanup
    - drbd: fix access after free
    - vfio: Use get_user_pages_longterm correctly
    - ARM: dts: imx51-zii-rdu1: fix touchscreen pinctrl
    - ARM: dts: omap3: Fix am3517 mdio and emac clock references
    - ARM: dts: dra7: Disable metastability workaround for USB2
    - cifs: Fix use after free of a mid_q_entry
    - cifs: Fix memory leak in smb2_set_ea()
    - cifs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in send_set_info() on SMB2 ACE setting
    - cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option
    - drm: Use kvzalloc for allocating blob property memory
    - drm/udl: fix display corruption of the last line
    - drm/amdgpu: Add amdgpu_atpx_get_dhandle()
    - drm/amdgpu: Dynamically probe for ATIF handle (v2)
    - jbd2: don't mark block as modified if the handle is out of credits
    - ext4: add corruption check in ext4_xattr_set_entry()
    - ext4: always verify the magic number in xattr blocks
    - ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg
      descriptors
    - ext4: always check block group bounds in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
    - ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid
    - ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()
    - ext4: include the illegal physical block in the bad map ext4_error msg
    - ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data
    - ext4: never move the system.data xattr out of the inode body
    - ext4: avoid running out of journal credits when appending to an inline file
    - ext4: add more inode number paranoia checks
    - ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock
    - ext4: check superblock mapped prior to committing
    - HID: i2c-hid: Fix "incomplete report" noise
    - HID: hiddev: fix potential Spectre v1
    - HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user()
    - HID: core: allow concurrent registr...

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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