Activity log for bug #1798427

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2018-10-17 17:37:11 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo bug added bug
2018-10-17 17:37:20 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo nominated for series Ubuntu Cosmic
2018-10-17 17:37:20 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo bug task added linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
2018-10-17 17:37:30 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo linux (Ubuntu Cosmic): status New In Progress
2018-10-17 17:37:34 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo linux (Ubuntu Cosmic): importance Undecided High
2018-10-17 17:37:38 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo linux (Ubuntu Cosmic): assignee Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)
2018-10-17 17:39:47 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo description A guest will hang while booting under 4.18.0-10.11 because of "kvm: x86: Set highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs", which came in via 4.18.y. A fix is already upstream, and already present in 4.18.14. This would be upstream commit daa07cbc9ae3da2d61b7ce900c0b9107d134f2c1 ("KVM: x86: fix L1TF's MMIO GFN calculation"). [Impact] A guest will hang while booting under 4.18.0-10.11 because of "kvm: x86: Set highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs", which came in via 4.18.y. [Test Case] A guest was booted after applying the patch. [Regression Potential] It might break KVM on systems with different physical memory limits, which is just what upstream might have been testing the most. ============ A fix is already upstream, and already present in 4.18.14. This would be upstream commit daa07cbc9ae3da2d61b7ce900c0b9107d134f2c1 ("KVM: x86: fix L1TF's MMIO GFN calculation").
2018-10-23 17:02:41 Stefan Bader linux (Ubuntu Cosmic): status In Progress Fix Committed
2018-10-24 14:49:59 Brad Figg tags verification-needed-cosmic
2018-11-07 21:07:50 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo tags verification-needed-cosmic verification-done-cosmic
2018-11-13 19:09:36 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2018-11-13 19:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-15471
2018-11-17 03:22:23 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-02-14 12:13:04 Brad Figg tags verification-done-cosmic verification-done-cosmic verification-needed-bionic
2019-02-14 15:51:42 Andy Whitcroft tags verification-done-cosmic verification-needed-bionic kernel-fixup-verification-needed-bionic verification-done-cosmic
2019-02-14 16:18:21 Andy Whitcroft tags kernel-fixup-verification-needed-bionic verification-done-cosmic kernel-fixup-verification-needed-bionic verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic
2019-07-24 20:56:34 Brad Figg tags kernel-fixup-verification-needed-bionic verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic cscc kernel-fixup-verification-needed-bionic verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic