Require improved hypervisor detection patch in Ubuntu 18.04

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-05-22 08:57 EDT-------
Increased severity to high

A test kernel for s390x could be found here:
https://people.canonical.com/~phlin/kernel/lp-1829972-s390x-early/

Boot OK on a s390x KVM.

Hello,
can you help us to verify if this kernel can meet your needs?
Thanks

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-05-24 08:46 EDT-------
The test kernel has been successfully verified by the SSC team and the requesting exploiter. From our perspective it is good to go.

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-done-bionic'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-failed-bionic'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-06-20 14:54 EDT-------
IBM z/OS Container Extensions appliance built on SSC 3.x with the proposed kernel successfully identified the zOS hypervisor:

Linux version 4.15.0-53-generic (buildd@bos02-s390x-001) (gcc ver
ntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #57-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 13 09:33:16 UTC 2019
-53.57-generic 4.15.18)
setup.5ae0ad: Linux is running as a guest in 64-bit mode

This fix is verified.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-55.60

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linux (4.15.0-55.60) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-55.60 -proposed tracker (LP: #1834954)

  * Request backport of ceph commits into bionic (LP: #1834235)
    - ceph: use atomic_t for ceph_inode_info::i_shared_gen
    - ceph: define argument structure for handle_cap_grant
    - ceph: flush pending works before shutdown super
    - ceph: send cap releases more aggressively
    - ceph: single workqueue for inode related works
    - ceph: avoid dereferencing invalid pointer during cached readdir
    - ceph: quota: add initial infrastructure to support cephfs quotas
    - ceph: quota: support for ceph.quota.max_files
    - ceph: quota: don't allow cross-quota renames
    - ceph: fix root quota realm check
    - ceph: quota: support for ceph.quota.max_bytes
    - ceph: quota: update MDS when max_bytes is approaching
    - ceph: quota: add counter for snaprealms with quota
    - ceph: avoid iput_final() while holding mutex or in dispatch thread

  * QCA9377 isn't being recognized sometimes (LP: #1757218)
    - SAUCE: USB: Disable USB2 LPM at shutdown

  * hns: fix ICMP6 neighbor solicitation messages discard problem (LP: #1833140)
    - net: hns: fix ICMP6 neighbor solicitation messages discard problem
    - net: hns: fix unsigned comparison to less than zero

  * Fix occasional boot time crash in hns driver (LP: #1833138)
    - net: hns: Fix probabilistic memory overwrite when HNS driver initialized

  * use-after-free in hns_nic_net_xmit_hw (LP: #1833136)
    - net: hns: fix KASAN: use-after-free in hns_nic_net_xmit_hw()

  * hns: attempt to restart autoneg when disabled should report error
    (LP: #1833147)
    - net: hns: Restart autoneg need return failed when autoneg off

  * systemd 237-3ubuntu10.14 ADT test failure on Bionic ppc64el (test-seccomp)
    (LP: #1821625)
    - powerpc: sys_pkey_alloc() and sys_pkey_free() system calls
    - powerpc: sys_pkey_mprotect() system call

  * [UBUNTU] pkey: Indicate old mkvp only if old and curr. mkvp are different
    (LP: #1832625)
    - pkey: Indicate old mkvp only if old and current mkvp are different

  * [UBUNTU] kernel: Fix gcm-aes-s390 wrong scatter-gather list processing
    (LP: #1832623)
    - s390/crypto: fix gcm-aes-s390 selftest failures

  * System crashes on hot adding a core with drmgr command (4.15.0-48-generic)
    (LP: #1833716)
    - powerpc/numa: improve control of topology updates
    - powerpc/numa: document topology_updates_enabled, disable by default

  * Kernel modules generated incorrectly when system is localized to a non-
    English language (LP: #1828084)
    - scripts: override locale from environment when running recordmcount.pl

  * [UBUNTU] kernel: Fix wrong dispatching for control domain CPRBs
    (LP: #1832624)
    - s390/zcrypt: Fix wrong dispatching for control domain CPRBs

  * CVE-2019-11815
    - net: rds: force to destroy connection if t_sock is NULL in
      rds_tcp_kill_sock().

  * Sound device not detected after resume from hibernate (LP: #1826868)
    - drm/i915: Force 2*96 MHz cdclk on glk/cnl when audio power is enabled
    - drm/i915: Save the old CDCLK atomic state
...

Changing "linux (Ubuntu)" to Fix Released, since the patch got upstream accepted with kernel 5.0 and in between kernel 5.2 landed in Eoan's release pocket.
Hence the entire ticket is Fix Released.

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-07-22 09:07 EDT-------
IBM bugzilla status -> closed, Fix Released with all requested distros.

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-failed-xenial'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!