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[Bug 1754375] Re: Xenial update to 4.4.113 stable release

 

Skipped:
* CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre v1 Intel)
  - x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction
    -> x86/cpu/AMD: Make the LFENCE instruction serialized
  - x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC

* CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 retpoline)
  - x86/mm/32: Move setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PCID) earlier
  - x86/asm: Use register variable to get stack pointer value
  - x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
  - x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly
  - EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm
  - kconfig.h: use __is_defined() to check if MODULE is defined
  - x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  - x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  - x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  - x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  - x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  - x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  - x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  - x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  - x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  - x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  - x86/retpoline: Remove compile time warning
  - x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros
  - module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC
  - x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
  - x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
  - retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
  - kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
  - kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
  - x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB

* bug 1743053:
  - libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices

** CVE added: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2017-5715

** CVE added: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2017-5753

** Description changed:

+ SRU Justification
  
-     SRU Justification
+     Impact:
+        The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
+        in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
+        demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
+        by originating either directly from a mainline/stable Linux tree or
+        a minimally backported form of that patch. The 4.4.113 upstream stable
+        patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
+        kernel as well.
  
-     Impact:
-        The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
-        in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
-        demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
-        by originating either directly from a mainline/stable Linux tree or
-        a minimally backported form of that patch. The 4.4.113 upstream stable
-        patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
-        kernel as well.
+        git://git.kernel.org/
  
-        git://git.kernel.org/
+     TEST CASE: TBD
  
-     TEST CASE: TBD
- 
-        The following patches from the 4.4.113 stable release shall be
- applied:
+ The following patches from the 4.4.113 stable release shall be applied:
+ * gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST
+ * scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA
+ * futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation
+ * ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON()
+ * ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant
+ * ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1
+ * af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len()
+ * af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs()
+ * scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state
+ * sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks
+ * pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit
+ * x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path
+ * Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup
+ * Input: twl6040-vibra - fix DT node memory management
+ * Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup
+ * Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup
+ * tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()
+ * phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices
+ * ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7
+ * can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation
+ * dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath()
+ * dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6
+ * arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
+ * kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm
+ * x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
+ * MIPS: AR7: ensure the port type's FCR value is used
+ * Linux 4.4.113

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

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

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Stefan Bader (smb)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Xenial update to 4.4.113 stable release

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  SRU Justification

      Impact:
         The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
         in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
         demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
         by originating either directly from a mainline/stable Linux tree or
         a minimally backported form of that patch. The 4.4.113 upstream stable
         patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
         kernel as well.

         git://git.kernel.org/

      TEST CASE: TBD

  The following patches from the 4.4.113 stable release shall be applied:
  * gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST
  * scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA
  * futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation
  * ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON()
  * ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant
  * ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1
  * af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len()
  * af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs()
  * scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state
  * sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks
  * pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit
  * x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path
  * Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup
  * Input: twl6040-vibra - fix DT node memory management
  * Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup
  * Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup
  * tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()
  * phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices
  * ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7
  * can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation
  * dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath()
  * dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6
  * arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
  * kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm
  * x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
  * MIPS: AR7: ensure the port type's FCR value is used
  * Linux 4.4.113

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