[Lucid] pre-stable backports of important kvm patches
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft | ||
Bug Description
The following 10 patches have been submitted for stable and are queued there for the next release but we should add them to out Lucid kernel as they fix some important problems. The patchset has been tested locally and reviewed by the maintainers.
* KVM: x86: disable paravirt mmu reporting
* KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
* KVM: SVM: Reset cr0 properly on vcpu reset
* KVM: VMX: Use macros instead of hex value on cr0 initialization
* KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP
* KVM: Fix segment descriptor loading
* KVM: x86 emulator: Fix popf emulation
* KVM: x86 emulator: Check IOPL level during io instruction emulation
* KVM: x86 emulator: fix memory access during x86 emulation
* KVM: x86 emulator: Add Virtual-8086 mode of emulation
CVE References
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.32-21.31
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linux (2.6.32-21.31) lucid; urgency=low
[ Andy Whitcroft ]
* allow modules.builtin to be optional
* d-i: add mpt2sas to the message-modules udeb
- LP: #530361
[ Christopher James Halse Rogers ]
* SAUCE: Nouveau: Add quirk framework to disable acceleration
- LP: #544088, #546393
* SAUCE: Nouveau: Disable acceleration on MacBook Pros
- LP: #546393
* SAUCE: Nouveau: Disable acceleration on GeForce3 cards
- LP: #544088
* SAUCE: Nouveau: Disable acceleration on 6100 cards
- LP: #542950
[ Stefan Bader ]
* SAUCE: dma-mapping: Remove WARN_ON in dma_free_coherent
- LP: #458201
[ Surbhi Palande ]
* SAUCE: sync before umount to reduce time taken by ext4 umount
- LP: #543617
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* tipc: Fix oops on send prior to entering networked mode (v3)
- CVE-2010-1187
* KVM: x86 emulator: Add Virtual-8086 mode of emulation
- LP: #561425
* KVM: x86 emulator: fix memory access during x86 emulation
- LP: #561425
* KVM: x86 emulator: Check IOPL level during io instruction emulation
- LP: #561425
* KVM: x86 emulator: Fix popf emulation
- LP: #561425
* KVM: Fix segment descriptor loading
- LP: #561425
* KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP
- LP: #561425
* KVM: VMX: Use macros instead of hex value on cr0 initialization
- LP: #561425
* KVM: SVM: Reset cr0 properly on vcpu reset
- LP: #561425
* KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
- LP: #561425
* KVM: x86: disable paravirt mmu reporting
- LP: #561425
* AppArmor: Fix put of unassigned ns if aa_unpack fails
* AppArmor: Fix refcount bug when exec fails
- LP: #562063
* AppArmor: Take refcount on cxt->profile to ensure it remains a valid
reference
- LP: #367499
* AppArmor: fix typo in scrubbing environment variable warning
- LP: #562060
* AppArmor: fix regression by setting default to mediate deleted files
- LP: #562056
* AppArmor: fix refcount order bug that can trigger during replacement
- LP: #367499
* AppArmor: Make sure to unmap aliases for vmalloced dfas before they are
live
- LP: #529288
* AppArmor: address performance regression of replaced profile
- LP: #549428
* AppArmor: make the global side the correct type
- LP: #562047
* AppArmor: use the kernel shared workqueue to free vmalloc'ed dfas
* sky2: add register definitions for new chips
- LP: #537168
* sky2: 88E8059 support
- LP: #537168
* net: Fix Yukon-2 Optima TCP offload setup
- LP: #537168
* net: Add missing TST_CFG_WRITE bits around sky2_pci_write
- LP: #537168
* sky2: print Optima chip name
- LP: #537168
* (Upstream) dell-laptop: defer dell_rfkill_update to worker thread
- LP: #555261
* drm/nv40: add LVDS table quirk for Dell Latitude D620
- LP: #539730
-- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:50:58 +0100