[SRU] virtualbox crash in raw mode

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

[Impact]
Crash in raw mode: cfr https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785689

[Test case]
Run an image in raw mode for around 10 minutes

[Regression potential]
None, from upstream and later releases (vivid included)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Please wait for the security upload to be performed (VENOM)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

ping, the security upload has been performed :)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is fixed in wily. LocutusOfBorg, please add the affected series, it's a lot of work for a sponsor to check which release is still affected.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

For trusty/utopic, please add a bug description and the SRU information. In particular, a justification -- how bad is that? Is it worth fixing this in utopic which will be EOL in some 6 weeks? (Trusty is LTS and a different matter, it makes sense to fix non-critical bugs there).

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Upstream asked me to fix it, and I agree a crash avoidable with one line patch is worth an upload.

you are the Sponsor, so I would like to leave up to you the possible fix for the kernel module build, since we are using linux-lts-vivid stack
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=28524c4dabd28a27c947eb0bde322272b4729462

do you think you can sponsor also this patch?
(fine for me leaving out utopic)

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Utopic is EOL.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

sponsored the trusty debdiff, unsubscribing sponsors then since it was the only remaining one

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello LocutusOfBorg, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/4.3.10-dfsg-1ubuntu6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bah, the trusty change fails to build

"/«PKGBUILDDIR»/src/VBox/Devices/PC/DevACPI.cpp: In function 'void acpiR3Relocate(PPDMDEVINS, RTGCINTPTR)':
/«PKGBUILDDIR»/src/VBox/Devices/PC/DevACPI.cpp:2847:12: error: 'ACPIState' has no member named 'pDevInsRC'
     pThis->pDevInsRC = PDMDEVINS_2_RCPTR(pDevIns);"

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

this patch doesn't work :( I remember I tested it a while ago, but something might have been changed in the last few months...

I'm going to SRU to a new virtualbox release, that will fix also this one

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1

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virtualbox (4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1) trusty-security; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release. (LP: #1517161)
    - drop patches and rebase with debian jessie-security upload
    - all CVEs are fixed in the upstream import, drop all the CVE
      patches.

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:44:04 +0100