Update kernel packaging to support forward porting kernels

Bug #1902957 reported by Seth Forshee
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Bug Description

SRU Justification

Impact: Our kernel packaging currently has support for backporting kernels to older releases. This includes appending ~BACKPORT_SUFFIX to the version string for the backport kernel, where BACKPORT_SUFFIX is defined in update.conf. We need to start doing similar forward ported kernels, but BACKPORT_SUFFIX should be appended using a + rather than a ~. Our kernel packaging cannot easily determine whether a + or a ~ is appropriate.

Fix: Move the leading character into BACKPORT_SUFFIX, and do not insert any leading characters from the kernel packaging scripts. Since the script which generates update.conf has access to information from kernel-series, it can more easily determine whether + or ~ is the appropriate leader.

Test Case: Run through the normal steps for updating a backport kernel. The version string generated should have ~SERIES for a backport to an older series, and +SERIES for a backport to a newer series.

Regression Potential: Backport kernels could end up with an incorrect version strings. Since all kernel uploads undergo review, any such errors should be caught before uploading.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Focal):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Groovy):
status: New → Fix Committed
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Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote :

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!

tags: added: verification-needed-xenial
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Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote :

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!

tags: added: verification-needed-bionic
tags: added: verification-needed-focal
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Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote :

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

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!

tags: added: verification-needed-groovy
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Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote :

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

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!

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Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza) wrote :

I have cranked several backport kernels this cycle and I confirm that as expected these patches made no change on the how their versions are constructed. Only the forward-ported kernels in Hirsute should have a visible change.

tags: added: verification-done-bionic verification-done-focal verification-done-groovy verification-done-xenial
removed: verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-focal verification-needed-groovy verification-needed-xenial
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 5.4.0-56.62

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linux (5.4.0-56.62) focal; urgency=medium

  * focal/linux: 5.4.0-56.62 -proposed tracker (LP: #1905300)

  * CVE-2020-4788
    - selftests/powerpc: rfi_flush: disable entry flush if present
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses
    - selftests/powerpc: entry flush test

linux (5.4.0-55.61) focal; urgency=medium

  * focal/linux: 5.4.0-55.61 -proposed tracker (LP: #1903175)

  * Update kernel packaging to support forward porting kernels (LP: #1902957)
    - [Debian] Update for leader included in BACKPORT_SUFFIX

  * Avoid double newline when running insertchanges (LP: #1903293)
    - [Packaging] insertchanges: avoid double newline

  * EFI: Fails when BootCurrent entry does not exist (LP: #1899993)
    - efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.

  * CVE-2020-14351
    - perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function

  * raid10: Block discard is very slow, causing severe delays for mkfs and
    fstrim operations (LP: #1896578)
    - md: add md_submit_discard_bio() for submitting discard bio
    - md/raid10: extend r10bio devs to raid disks
    - md/raid10: pull codes that wait for blocked dev into one function
    - md/raid10: improve raid10 discard request
    - md/raid10: improve discard request for far layout
    - dm raid: fix discard limits for raid1 and raid10
    - dm raid: remove unnecessary discard limits for raid10

  * Bionic: btrfs: kernel BUG at /build/linux-
    eTBZpZ/linux-4.15.0/fs/btrfs/ctree.c:3233! (LP: #1902254)
    - btrfs: drop unnecessary offset_in_page in extent buffer helpers
    - btrfs: extent_io: do extra check for extent buffer read write functions
    - btrfs: extent-tree: kill BUG_ON() in __btrfs_free_extent()
    - btrfs: extent-tree: kill the BUG_ON() in insert_inline_extent_backref()
    - btrfs: ctree: check key order before merging tree blocks

  * Ethernet no link lights after reboot (Intel i225-v 2.5G) (LP: #1902578)
    - igc: Add PHY power management control

  * Undetected Data corruption in MPI workloads that use VSX for reductions on
    POWER9 DD2.1 systems (LP: #1902694)
    - powerpc: Fix undetected data corruption with P9N DD2.1 VSX CI load emulation
    - selftests/powerpc: Make alignment handler test P9N DD2.1 vector CI load
      workaround

  * [20.04 FEAT] Support/enhancement of NVMe IPL (LP: #1902179)
    - s390: nvme ipl
    - s390: nvme reipl
    - s390/ipl: support NVMe IPL kernel parameters

  * uvcvideo: add mapping for HEVC payloads (LP: #1895803)
    - media: uvcvideo: Add mapping for HEVC payloads

  * Focal update: v5.4.73 upstream stable release (LP: #1902115)
    - ibmveth: Switch order of ibmveth_helper calls.
    - ibmveth: Identify ingress large send packets.
    - ipv4: Restore flowi4_oif update before call to xfrm_lookup_route
    - mlx4: handle non-napi callers to napi_poll
    - net: fec: Fix phy_device lookup for phy_reset_after_clk_enable()
    - net: fec: Fix PHY init after phy_reset_after_clk_enable()
    - net: fix pos incrementment in ipv6_route_seq_next
    - net/smc: fix valid DMBE buffer sizes
    - net...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Focal):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-197.229

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linux (4.4.0-197.229) xenial; urgency=medium

  * xenial/linux: 4.4.0-197.229 -proposed tracker (LP: #1905489)

  * sha1_ce and sha2_ce modules no longer load on arm64 (LP: #1905336)
    - SAUCE: Revert "crypto: arm64/sha - avoid non-standard inline asm tricks"

  * Fails to build on powerpc (LP: #1905475)
    - powerpc/uaccess-flush: fix corenet64_smp_defconfig build
    - SAUCE: powerpc/uaccess: only include kup-radix.h on PPC_BOOK3S_64

linux (4.4.0-196.228) xenial; urgency=medium

  * xenial/linux: 4.4.0-196.228 -proposed tracker (LP: #1905309)

  * CVE-2020-4788
    - SAUCE: powerpc/64s: Define MASKABLE_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES_OOL
    - SAUCE: powerpc/64s: move some exception handlers out of line
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry
    - SAUCE: powerpc: Add a framework for user access tracking
    - powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends
    - powerpc: Fix __clear_user() with KUAP enabled
    - powerpc/uaccess: Evaluate macro arguments once, before user access is
      allowed
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

linux (4.4.0-195.227) xenial; urgency=medium

  * xenial/linux: 4.4.0-195.227 -proposed tracker (LP: #1903107)

  * Update kernel packaging to support forward porting kernels (LP: #1902957)
    - [Debian] Update for leader included in BACKPORT_SUFFIX

  * Avoid double newline when running insertchanges (LP: #1903293)
    - [Packaging] insertchanges: avoid double newline

  * EFI: Fails when BootCurrent entry does not exist (LP: #1899993)
    - efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.

  * CVE-2020-14351
    - perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function

  * CVE-2020-25645
    - geneve: add transport ports in route lookup for geneve

  * Xenial update: v4.4.241 upstream stable release (LP: #1902097)
    - ibmveth: Identify ingress large send packets.
    - tipc: fix the skb_unshare() in tipc_buf_append()
    - net/ipv4: always honour route mtu during forwarding
    - r8169: fix data corruption issue on RTL8402
    - ALSA: bebob: potential info leak in hwdep_read()
    - mm/kasan: print name of mem[set,cpy,move]() caller in report
    - mm/kasan: add API to check memory regions
    - compiler.h, kasan: Avoid duplicating __read_once_size_nocheck()
    - compiler.h: Add read_word_at_a_time() function.
    - lib/strscpy: Shut up KASAN false-positives in strscpy()
    - x86/mm/ptdump: Fix soft lockup in page table walker
    - net: hdlc: In hdlc_rcv, check to make sure dev is an HDLC device
    - net: hdlc_raw_eth: Clear the IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag after calling
      ether_setup
    - nfc: Ensure presence of NFC_ATTR_FIRMWARE_NAME attribute in
      nfc_genl_fw_download()
    - tcp: fix to update snd_wl1 in bulk receiver fast path
    - icmp: randomize the global rate limiter
    - cifs: remove bogus debug code
    - ima: Don't ignore errors from crypto_shash_update()
    - EDAC/i5100: Fix error handling order in i5100_init_one()
    - crypto: ixp4xx - Fix the size used in a 'dma_free_coherent()' call
    - media: Revert "media: exynos4-is: Add missed check for
      pinctrl_lookup_state()"
 ...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 5.8.0-31.33

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linux (5.8.0-31.33) groovy; urgency=medium

  * groovy/linux: 5.8.0-31.33 -proposed tracker (LP: #1905299)

  * Groovy 5.8 kernel hangs on boot on CPUs with eLLC (LP: #1903397)
    - drm/i915: Mark ininitial fb obj as WT on eLLC machines to avoid rcu lockup
      during fbdev init

  * CVE-2020-4788
    - selftests/powerpc: rfi_flush: disable entry flush if present
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses
    - selftests/powerpc: entry flush test

linux (5.8.0-30.32) groovy; urgency=medium

  * groovy/linux: 5.8.0-30.32 -proposed tracker (LP: #1903194)

  * Update kernel packaging to support forward porting kernels (LP: #1902957)
    - [Debian] Update for leader included in BACKPORT_SUFFIX

  * Avoid double newline when running insertchanges (LP: #1903293)
    - [Packaging] insertchanges: avoid double newline

  * EFI: Fails when BootCurrent entry does not exist (LP: #1899993)
    - efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.

  * raid10: Block discard is very slow, causing severe delays for mkfs and
    fstrim operations (LP: #1896578)
    - md: add md_submit_discard_bio() for submitting discard bio
    - md/raid10: extend r10bio devs to raid disks
    - md/raid10: pull codes that wait for blocked dev into one function
    - md/raid10: improve raid10 discard request
    - md/raid10: improve discard request for far layout
    - dm raid: fix discard limits for raid1 and raid10
    - dm raid: remove unnecessary discard limits for raid10

  * Bionic: btrfs: kernel BUG at /build/linux-
    eTBZpZ/linux-4.15.0/fs/btrfs/ctree.c:3233! (LP: #1902254)
    - btrfs: extent_io: do extra check for extent buffer read write functions
    - btrfs: extent-tree: kill BUG_ON() in __btrfs_free_extent()
    - btrfs: extent-tree: kill the BUG_ON() in insert_inline_extent_backref()
    - btrfs: ctree: check key order before merging tree blocks

  * Tiger Lake PMC core driver fixes (LP: #1899883)
    - platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: update TGL's LPM0 reg bit map name
    - platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: fix bound check in pmc_core_mphy_pg_show()
    - platform/x86: pmc_core: Use descriptive names for LPM registers
    - platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Fix TigerLake power gating status map
    - platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Fix the slp_s0 counter displayed value

  * drm/i915/dp_mst - System would hang during the boot up. (LP: #1902469)
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: drm/i915/display: Fix null deref in
      intel_psr_atomic_check()"
    - drm/i915: Fix encoder lookup during PSR atomic check

  * Undetected Data corruption in MPI workloads that use VSX for reductions on
    POWER9 DD2.1 systems (LP: #1902694)
    - powerpc: Fix undetected data corruption with P9N DD2.1 VSX CI load emulation
    - selftests/powerpc: Make alignment handler test P9N DD2.1 vector CI load
      workaround

  * [20.04 FEAT] Support/enhancement of NVMe IPL (LP: #1902179)
    - s390/ipl: support NVMe IPL kernel parameters

  * uvcvideo: add mapping for HEVC payloads (LP: #1895803)
    - media: uvcvideo: Add mapping for HEVC payloads

  * risc-v 5.8 ...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Groovy):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-126.129

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linux (4.15.0-126.129) bionic; urgency=medium

  * bionic/linux: 4.15.0-126.129 -proposed tracker (LP: #1905305)

  * CVE-2020-4788
    - SAUCE: powerpc/64s: Define MASKABLE_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES_OOL
    - SAUCE: powerpc/64s: move some exception handlers out of line
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry
    - SAUCE: powerpc: Add a framework for user access tracking
    - powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends
    - powerpc: Fix __clear_user() with KUAP enabled
    - powerpc/uaccess: Evaluate macro arguments once, before user access is
      allowed
    - powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

linux (4.15.0-125.128) bionic; urgency=medium

  * bionic/linux: 4.15.0-125.128 -proposed tracker (LP: #1903137)

  * Update kernel packaging to support forward porting kernels (LP: #1902957)
    - [Debian] Update for leader included in BACKPORT_SUFFIX

  * Avoid double newline when running insertchanges (LP: #1903293)
    - [Packaging] insertchanges: avoid double newline

  * EFI: Fails when BootCurrent entry does not exist (LP: #1899993)
    - efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.

  * CVE-2020-14351
    - perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function

  * raid10: Block discard is very slow, causing severe delays for mkfs and
    fstrim operations (LP: #1896578)
    - md: add md_submit_discard_bio() for submitting discard bio
    - md/raid10: extend r10bio devs to raid disks
    - md/raid10: pull codes that wait for blocked dev into one function
    - md/raid10: improve raid10 discard request
    - md/raid10: improve discard request for far layout

  * Bionic: btrfs: kernel BUG at /build/linux-
    eTBZpZ/linux-4.15.0/fs/btrfs/ctree.c:3233! (LP: #1902254)
    - btrfs: use offset_in_page instead of open-coding it
    - btrfs: use BUG() instead of BUG_ON(1)
    - btrfs: drop unnecessary offset_in_page in extent buffer helpers
    - btrfs: extent_io: do extra check for extent buffer read write functions
    - btrfs: extent-tree: kill BUG_ON() in __btrfs_free_extent()
    - btrfs: extent-tree: kill the BUG_ON() in insert_inline_extent_backref()
    - btrfs: ctree: check key order before merging tree blocks

  * Bionic update: upstream stable patchset 2020-11-04 (LP: #1902943)
    - USB: gadget: f_ncm: Fix NDP16 datagram validation
    - gpio: tc35894: fix up tc35894 interrupt configuration
    - vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free on the_virtio_vsock
    - vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove()
    - vsock/virtio: add transport parameter to the
      virtio_transport_reset_no_sock()
    - net: virtio_vsock: Enhance connection semantics
    - Input: i8042 - add nopnp quirk for Acer Aspire 5 A515
    - ftrace: Move RCU is watching check after recursion check
    - drm/amdgpu: restore proper ref count in amdgpu_display_crtc_set_config
    - drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr: Add needed_headroom for PVC devices
    - drm/sun4i: mixer: Extend regmap max_register
    - net: dec: de2104x: Increase receive ring size for Tulip
    - rndis_host: increase sleep time in the query-response loop
    - nvme-core: get/put ctrl ...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 5.8.0-36.40+21.04.1

---------------
linux (5.8.0-36.40+21.04.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - update dkms package versions

  [ Ubuntu: 5.8.0-36.40 ]

  * debian/scripts/file-downloader does not handle positive failures correctly
    (LP: #1878897)
    - [Packaging] file-downloader not handling positive failures correctly

  [ Ubuntu: 5.8.0-35.39 ]

  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - update dkms package versions
  * CVE-2021-1052 // CVE-2021-1053
    - [Packaging] NVIDIA -- Add the NVIDIA 460 driver

 -- Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:57:30 +0100

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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