kvm fails to boot GNU Hurd kernels with 4.4 Xenial kernel

Bug #1550596 reported by Colin Ian King
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Colin Ian King
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Colin Ian King

Bug Description

Since 4.4, I have not been able to boot GNU Hurd Kernels using KVM QEMU. I tracked this regression down to commit e8dd2d2d641c ("Silence compiler warning in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c", 2015-09-06)

This has been recently fixed with upstream commit 0c1d77f4ba5cc9c05a29adca3d6466cdf4969b70:

KVM: x86: fix conversion of addresses to linear in 32-bit protected mode

Commit e8dd2d2d641c ("Silence compiler warning in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c",
2015-09-06) broke boot of the Hurd. The bug is that the "default:"
case actually could modify "la", but after the patch this change is
not reflected in *linear.

The bug is visible whenever a non-zero segment base causes the linear
address to wrap around the 4GB mark.

Fixes: e8dd2d2d641cb2724ee10e76c0ad02e04289c017
Cc: <email address hidden>
Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <email address hidden>

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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Fix sent to kernel team mailing list for review and inclusion into 4.4 Xenial linux kernel: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2016-February/072324.html

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Colin Ian King (colin-king)
description: updated
Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-9.24

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linux (4.4.0-9.24) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1551319

  * AppArmor logs denial for when the device path is ENOENT (LP: #1482943)
    - SAUCE: apparmor: fix log of apparmor audit message when kern_path() fails

  * BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (aa_label_merge) (LP:
    #1448912)
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: insert race between label_update and label_merge
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: ensure aa_get_newest will trip debugging if the
      replacedby is not setup
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: label merge handling of marking unconfined and stale
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: refcount race between locating in labelset and get
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: ensure new labels resulting from merge have a
      replacedby
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: label_vec_merge insertion
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: deadlock in aa_put_label() call chain
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: add required locking of __aa_update_replacedby on
      merge path
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: convert replacedby update to be protected by the
      labelset lock
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Fix: update replacedby allocation to take a gfp parameter

  * apparmor kernel BUG kills firefox (LP: #1430546)
    - SAUCE: apparmor: Disallow update of cred when then subjective != the
      objective cred
    - SAUCE: apparmor: rework retrieval of the current label in the profile update
      case

  * sleep from invalid context in aa_move_mount (LP: #1539349)
    - SAUCE: apparmor: fix sleep from invalid context

  * s390x: correct restore of high gprs on signal return (LP: #1550468)
    - s390/compat: correct restore of high gprs on signal return

  * missing SMAP support (LP: #1550517)
    - x86/entry/compat: Add missing CLAC to entry_INT80_32

  * Floating-point exception handler receives empty Data-Exception Code in
    Floating Point Control register (LP: #1548414)
    - s390/fpu: signals vs. floating point control register

  * kvm fails to boot GNU Hurd kernels with 4.4 Xenial kernel (LP: #1550596)
    - KVM: x86: fix conversion of addresses to linear in 32-bit protected mode

  * Surelock GA2 SP1: capiredp01: cxl_init_adapter fails for CAPI devices
    0000:01:00.0 and 0005:01:00.0 after upgrading to 840.10 Platform firmware
    build fips840/b1208b_1604.840 (LP: #1532914)
    - cxl: Fix PSL timebase synchronization detection

  * [Feature]EDAC support for Knights Landing (LP: #1519631)
    - EDAC, sb_edac: Set fixed DIMM width on Xeon Knights Landing

  * Various failures of kernel_security suite on Xenial kernel on s390x arch
    (LP: #1531327)
    - [config] s390x -- CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=65536

  * Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Service in 15.04 (LP: #1434579)
    - [Config] Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules when appropriate

  * linux is missing provides for virtualbox-guest-modules [i386 amd64 x32] (LP:
    #1507588)
    - [Config] Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules when appropriate

  * Backport more recent driver for SKL, KBL and BXT graphics (LP: #1540390)
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: Provide a backport driver for SKL, KBL & BXT graphics
    - SA...

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Changed in linux (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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