Unrevert "arm64: Use firmware to detect CPUs that are not affected by Spectre-v2"

[dann frazier]

We reverted a couple changes in 4.15.0-72.81 because they were causing a regression (bug 1853326) that was not understood at press time:

b042ff6848684 Revert "arm64: Get rid of __smccc_workaround_1_hvc_*"
5f395b984282e Revert "arm64: Use firmware to detect CPUs that are not affected by Spectre-v2"

This bug is to track the reapplication of these patches, once we've figured out the underlying issue.

Update: The regression was believed to actually be caused by bug 1853485, which has now been addressed.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-74.84

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linux (4.15.0-74.84) bionic; urgency=medium

  * bionic/linux: 4.15.0-74.84 -proposed tracker (LP: #1856749)

  * [Hyper-V] KVP daemon fails to start on first boot of disco VM (LP: #1820063)
    - [Packaging] bind hv_kvp_daemon startup to hv_kvp device

  * Unrevert "arm64: Use firmware to detect CPUs that are not affected by
    Spectre-v2" (LP: #1854207)
    - arm64: Get rid of __smccc_workaround_1_hvc_*
    - arm64: Use firmware to detect CPUs that are not affected by Spectre-v2

  * Bionic kernel panic on Cavium ThunderX CN88XX (LP: #1853485)
    - SAUCE: irqchip/gic-v3-its: Add missing return value in
      its_irq_domain_activate()

linux (4.15.0-73.82) bionic; urgency=medium

  * bionic/linux: 4.15.0-73.82 -proposed tracker (LP: #1854819)

  * CVE-2019-14901
    - SAUCE: mwifiex: Fix heap overflow in mmwifiex_process_tdls_action_frame()

  * CVE-2019-14896 // CVE-2019-14897
    - SAUCE: libertas: Fix two buffer overflows at parsing bss descriptor

  * CVE-2019-14895
    - SAUCE: mwifiex: fix possible heap overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie()

  * CVE-2019-18660: patches for Ubuntu (LP: #1853142) // CVE-2019-18660
    - powerpc/64s: support nospectre_v2 cmdline option
    - powerpc/book3s64: Fix link stack flush on context switch
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush link stack on guest exit to host kernel

  * Please add patch fixing RK818 ID detection (LP: #1853192)
    - SAUCE: mfd: rk808: Fix RK818 ID template

  * [SRU][B/OEM-B/OEM-OSP1/D] Enable new Elan touchpads which are not in current
    whitelist (LP: #1853246)
    - HID: quirks: Fix keyboard + touchpad on Lenovo Miix 630
    - Input: elan_i2c - export the device id whitelist
    - HID: quirks: Refactor ELAN 400 and 401 handling

  * Lenovo dock MAC Address pass through doesn't work in Ubuntu (LP: #1827961)
    - r8152: Add macpassthru support for ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2

  * s390/dasd: reduce the default queue depth and nr of hardware queues
    (LP: #1852257)
    - s390/dasd: reduce the default queue depth and nr of hardware queues

  * External microphone can't work on some dell machines with the codec alc256
    or alc236 (LP: #1853791)
    - SAUCE: ALSA: hda/realtek - Move some alc256 pintbls to fallback table
    - SAUCE: ALSA: hda/realtek - Move some alc236 pintbls to fallback table

  * Memory leak in net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c - 8 pages per ipsec connection
    (LP: #1853197)
    - xfrm: Fix memleak on xfrm state destroy

  * CVE-2019-19083
    - drm/amd/display: memory leak

  * update ENA driver for DIMLIB dynamic interrupt moderation (LP: #1853180)
    - net: ena: add intr_moder_rx_interval to struct ena_com_dev and use it
    - net: ena: switch to dim algorithm for rx adaptive interrupt moderation
    - net: ena: reimplement set/get_coalesce()
    - net: ena: enable the interrupt_moderation in driver_supported_features
    - net: ena: remove code duplication in
      ena_com_update_nonadaptive_moderation_interval _*()
    - net: ena: remove old adaptive interrupt moderation code from ena_netdev
    - net: ena: remove ena_restore_ethtool_params() and relevant fields
    - net: ena: remov...

[dann frazier (dannf)]

Marking verification failed, as that is blocked by bug 1857074.