[SRU][Zesty] Fix lscpu segfault on ARM64 with SMBIOS v2.0

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I have a test kernel in PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~centriq-team/+archive/ubuntu/lp1716483

Can you please test this kernel and post your results in bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1716483 so that I can submit for SRU? Also, could you please share the test and firmware that was used to report this bug?

Validated.

Reported against FW 1.5. Validated against FW 2.0

Test:
sudo apt-get install kexec-tools
sudo kexec -l -d /boot/vmlinuz-<version> --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-<version> --reuse-cmd
sudo kexec -e

wait up to 10 minutes for the new kernel to boot

System will crash at userspace boot without this fix.

Thanks Jeff. Will SRU this shortly. If this patch is accepted you will need to help me verify the -proposed as well.

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-zesty' to 'verification-done-zesty'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-zesty' to 'verification-failed-zesty'.

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!

I verified that the kdump failure symptom (Comment #3) has now been resolved. The crashkernel successfully boots into userspace and is able to complete the dump collection.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.10.0-38.42

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linux (4.10.0-38.42) zesty; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.10.0-38.42 -proposed tracker (LP: #1722330)

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    (LP: #1720359)
    - scsi: hpsa: limit transfer length to 1MB

  * [Dell Docking IE][0bda:8153] Realtek USB Ethernet leads to system hang
    (LP: #1720977)
    - r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization

  * Touchpad not detected in Lenovo X1 Yoga / Yoga 720-15IKB (LP: #1700657)
    - mfd: intel-lpss: Add missing PCI ID for Intel Sunrise Point LPSS devices

  * Add installer support for Broadcom BCM573xx network drivers. (LP: #1720466)
    - d-i: Add bnxt_en to nic-modules.

  * CVE-2017-1000252
    - KVM: VMX: Do not BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ

  * CVE-2017-10663
    - f2fs: sanity check checkpoint segno and blkoff

  * xfstest sanity checks on seek operations fails (LP: #1696049)
    - xfs: fix off-by-one on max nr_pages in xfs_find_get_desired_pgoff()

  * [P9, Power NV][ WSP][Ubuntu 16.04.03] : perf hw breakpoint command results
    in call traces and system goes for reboot. (LP: #1706033)
    - powerpc/64s: Handle data breakpoints in Radix mode

  * 5U84 - ses driver isn't binding right - cannot blink lights on 1 of the 2
    5u84 (LP: #1693369)
    - scsi: ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links()
      fails.

  * Vlun resize request could fail with cxlflash driver (LP: #1713575)
    - scsi: cxlflash: Fix vlun resize failure in the shrink path

  * More migrations with constant load (LP: #1713576)
    - sched/fair: Prefer sibiling only if local group is under-utilized

  * New PMU fixes for marked events. (LP: #1716491)
    - powerpc/perf: POWER9 PMU stops after idle workaround

  * CVE-2017-14340
    - xfs: XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE() should be false if no rt device present

  * [Zesty][Yakkety] rtl8192e bug fixes (LP: #1698470)
    - staging: rtl8192e: rtl92e_fill_tx_desc fix write to mapped out memory.
    - staging: rtl8192e: fix 2 byte alignment of register BSSIDR.
    - staging: rtl8192e: rtl92e_get_eeprom_size Fix read size of EPROM_CMD.
    - staging: rtl8192e: GetTs Fix invalid TID 7 warning.

  * Stranded with ENODEV after mdadm --readonly (LP: #1706243)
    - md: MD_CLOSING needs to be cleared after called md_set_readonly or
      do_md_stop

  * multipath -ll is not showing the disks which are actually multipath
    (LP: #1718397)
    - fs: aio: fix the increment of aio-nr and counting against aio-max-nr

  * ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad inconsistently detected (Gigabyte P57W laptop)
    (LP: #1594214)
    - Input: i8042 - add Gigabyte P57 to the keyboard reset table

  * CVE-2017-10911
    - xen-blkback: don't leak stack data via response ring

  * CVE-2017-11176
    - mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify()

  * implement 'complain mode' in seccomp for developer mode with snaps
    (LP: #1567597)
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: seccomp: log actions even when audit is disabled"
    - seccomp: Provide matching filter for introspection
    - seccomp: Sysctl to display available actions
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