i40e NIC not recognized

[Juerg Haefliger]

== SRU Justification ==

Booting Trusty with kernel 3.13.0-156-generic on a fairly new Intel box with a i40e NIC results in no network. The 3.13 i40e driver doesn't support the following HW:

3d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 37d2 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 35ce
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 37
        Memory at ac000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at ad808000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Expansion ROM at ad980000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
        Product Name: S2600WFT

This is a Canonical test system and having functional networking with a Trusty kernel would help with - well - testing :-)

== Fix ==

Add a backport driver in addition to the in-tree driver that supports newer versions of the i40e NIC.

== Regression Potential ==

Low. The new driver will only load for NICs that are not supported by the current in-tree driver.

== Test Case ==

Boot a patched kernel and verify the NIC is recognized and the network comes up.

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

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. While running an Ubuntu kernel (not a mainline or third-party kernel) please enter the following command in a terminal window:

apport-collect 1789215

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If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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-trusty' to 'verification-done-trusty'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-trusty' to 'verification-failed-trusty'.

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!

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Boot tested on relevant HW.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.13.0-160.210

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linux (3.13.0-160.210) trusty; urgency=medium

  * CVE-2018-14633
    - iscsi target: Use hex2bin instead of a re-implementation

  * CVE-2018-14634
    - exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of _STK_LIM

linux (3.13.0-159.209) trusty; urgency=medium

  * linux: 3.13.0-159.209 -proposed tracker (LP: #1791754)

  * L1TF mitigation not effective in some CPU and RAM combinations
    (LP: #1788563) // CVE-2018-3620 // CVE-2018-3646
    - x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix overflow in l1tf_pfn_limit() on 32bit
    - x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix off-by-one error when warning that system has too
      much RAM
    - x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+

  * CVE-2018-15594
    - x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for paravirt guests

  * i40e NIC not recognized (LP: #1789215)
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Import the i40e driver from Xenial 4.4
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Add a compatibility layer
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Don't probe for NICs supported by the in-tree driver
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Rename the driver to i40e_bpo
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Hook the driver into the kernel tree
    - [Config] Add CONFIG_I40E_BPO=m

  * Probable regression with EXT3 file systems and CVE-2018-1093 patches
    (LP: #1789131)
    - ext4: fix bitmap position validation

  * CVE-2018-3620 // CVE-2018-3646
    - mm: x86 pgtable: drop unneeded preprocessor ifdef
    - x86/asm: Move PUD_PAGE macros to page_types.h
    - x86/asm: Add pud/pmd mask interfaces to handle large PAT bit
    - x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle large PAT bit
    - x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages on PAE
    - SAUCE: x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect NUMA hinting PTEs against speculation
    - Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] disable NUMA_BALANCING"

  * CVE-2018-15572
    - x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
    - x86/speculation: Protect against userspace-userspace spectreRSB

  * CVE-2018-6555
    - SAUCE: irda: Only insert new objects into the global database via setsockopt

  * CVE-2018-6554
    - SAUCE: irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket

  * BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kworker/0:1:1119] (LP: #1788817)
    - drm/ast: Fixed system hanged if disable P2A

  * errors when scanning partition table of corrupted AIX disk (LP: #1787281)
    - partitions/aix: fix usage of uninitialized lv_info and lvname structures
    - partitions/aix: append null character to print data from disk

 -- Stefan Bader <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:38:31 +0200