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[Heitor Alves de Siqueira <1927547@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fixes are now available under the "ESM Infrastructure Security" PPA for
Trusty and Xenial, according to the versions below:

Trusty -- 1.7.4-4ubuntu1+esm1 
Xenial -- 1.8.2-1ubuntu1+esm1

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

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

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Title:
  seabios missing NMI disable in rtc_mask()

Status in seabios package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in seabios source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in seabios source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  On seabios before rel-1.9.0~47, there's a bug in rtc_mask() that can cause VMs to miss interrupts and get stuck in a 'PAUSED' state due to KVM emulation errors.

  While reading PORT_CMOS_DATA, an NMI can "steal" execution before the
  inb() call returns, which effectively leaves the guest waiting on the
  port read forever. This can then trigger watchdogs, and usually
  results in an KVM emulation error leaving the VM in the 'PAUSED'
  state. Since the guest VM is broken due to the missed interrupts, the
  only way to recover is restarting it.

  [Test Plan]
  Due to the somewhat small race window involved between the inb() call and an NMI coming in, this issue has been hard to reproduce consistently.  Our test plan involves running the fixes in a heavily overcommited Openstack compute host where this issue has been reported multiple times, to also validate that no new regressions have been introduced.

  [Where problems could occur]
  The patch disables NMIs in rtc_mask(), so that it stays consistent with the other rtc_*() functions in seabios/srs/hw/rtc.c. After the CMOS port access finishes and the guest resumes execution, we could see regressions with missed interrupts or NMIs not being handled if they are not re-enabled.

  Since the patch is already present in all Ubuntu releases starting
  with Bionic and there have been no 'fixes:' tags for this patch
  upstream, the chance for new regressions should be fairly limited.

  [Other Info]
  This has been fixed by the following upstream patch:
  - 3156b71a535e (rtc: Disable NMI in rtc_mask()) [0]

  $ git describe --contains 3156b71a535e661
  rel-1.9.0~47
  $ rmadison seabios -s trusty-updates,xenial,bionic
  seabios | 1.7.4-4ubuntu1 | trusty-updates | source, all
  seabios | 1.8.2-1ubuntu1 | xenial | source, all
  seabios | 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 | bionic | source, all

  Releases starting with Bionic already have this fix.

  [0]
  https://review.coreboot.org/plugins/gitiles/seabios/+/3156b71a535e661%5E%21/#F0

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