i40e NIC not recognized

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apport-collect 1789215

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

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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.

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Boot tested on relevant HW.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.13.0-160.210

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linux (3.13.0-160.210) trusty; urgency=medium

  * CVE-2018-14633
    - iscsi target: Use hex2bin instead of a re-implementation

  * CVE-2018-14634
    - exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of _STK_LIM

linux (3.13.0-159.209) trusty; urgency=medium

  * linux: 3.13.0-159.209 -proposed tracker (LP: #1791754)

  * L1TF mitigation not effective in some CPU and RAM combinations
    (LP: #1788563) // CVE-2018-3620 // CVE-2018-3646
    - x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix overflow in l1tf_pfn_limit() on 32bit
    - x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix off-by-one error when warning that system has too
      much RAM
    - x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+

  * CVE-2018-15594
    - x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for paravirt guests

  * i40e NIC not recognized (LP: #1789215)
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Import the i40e driver from Xenial 4.4
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Add a compatibility layer
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Don't probe for NICs supported by the in-tree driver
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Rename the driver to i40e_bpo
    - SAUCE: i40e_bpo: Hook the driver into the kernel tree
    - [Config] Add CONFIG_I40E_BPO=m

  * Probable regression with EXT3 file systems and CVE-2018-1093 patches
    (LP: #1789131)
    - ext4: fix bitmap position validation

  * CVE-2018-3620 // CVE-2018-3646
    - mm: x86 pgtable: drop unneeded preprocessor ifdef
    - x86/asm: Move PUD_PAGE macros to page_types.h
    - x86/asm: Add pud/pmd mask interfaces to handle large PAT bit
    - x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle large PAT bit
    - x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages on PAE
    - SAUCE: x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect NUMA hinting PTEs against speculation
    - Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] disable NUMA_BALANCING"

  * CVE-2018-15572
    - x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
    - x86/speculation: Protect against userspace-userspace spectreRSB

  * CVE-2018-6555
    - SAUCE: irda: Only insert new objects into the global database via setsockopt

  * CVE-2018-6554
    - SAUCE: irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket

  * BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kworker/0:1:1119] (LP: #1788817)
    - drm/ast: Fixed system hanged if disable P2A

  * errors when scanning partition table of corrupted AIX disk (LP: #1787281)
    - partitions/aix: fix usage of uninitialized lv_info and lvname structures
    - partitions/aix: append null character to print data from disk

 -- Stefan Bader <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:38:31 +0200