KVM patches for s390x to provide facility bits 81 (ppa15) and 82 (bpb)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Joseph Salisbury | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Joseph Salisbury | ||
Artful |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Joseph Salisbury | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Joseph Salisbury |
Bug Description
== SRU Justification ==
Mainline commit 35b3fde6203b9 is a KVM patch for s390x to provide facility
bits 81 (ppa15) and 82 (bpb). This is required for branch prediction behaviour
changes.
This is the public bug for SRU. There is also a priave bug report:
http://
There is a qemu portion to this fix:
http://
== Fixes ==
Artful/Bionic:
35b3fde6203b ("KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature")
Xenial:
ed8dda0bf74b ("Enable all facility bits that are known good for passthrough")
35b3fde6203b ("KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature")
== Regression Potential ==
Low, this fix is limited to s390.
== Test Case ==
A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
CVE References
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Artful): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Artful): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: | added: architecture-s39064 artful bionic bugnameltc-163626 qemu-18.04 severity-high targetmilestone-inin1604 xenial |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Artful): | |
assignee: | nobody → Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
assignee: | nobody → Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Artful): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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- artful' to 'verification- done-artful' . If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification- needed- artful' to 'verification- failed- artful' .
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!