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[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee+lp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Ian King (colin-king)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  backport fwts UEFI test driver to Xenial

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [SRU Justification, XENIAL]

  The fwts UEFI test driver is now upstream in Linux 4.9 and also in the
  Ubuntu Yakkety 4.8 kernel, so it would be useful for fwts support to
  add it into the Xenial kernel as default (for example Xenial bases
  fwts snaps as we can dispense with the DKMS module support).

  [Fix]
  Upstream commit ff6301dabc3ca20ab8f50f8d0252ac05da610d8 "efi: Add efi_test driver for exporting UEFI runtime service interfaces"

  This patch requires a minor patch wiggle on the Makefile and Kconfig
  to backport to Xenial.

  [Test]
  Build fwts from the source and run on a Xenial kernel w/o the fwts dpkg based efi driver and run "sudo fwts --uefitests -" and the tests will fail.  Install the fixed kernel with the driver and the tests will now run because the module is loaded by fwts and we can now exercise the UEFI run time interfaces from fwts as root.

  [Regression Potential]
  This adds test functionality and will not impact on any other driver or subsystem. To access these test interfaces one requires root privileges, so risk of normal unprivileged uses accessing UEFI run time services are zero.

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