Kernel Team Summary: August 30, 2017

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on 30 August 2017

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August 22 through August 28

Development (Artful / 17.10)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule

Important upcoming dates:

Beta 1 - Aug 31 (~1-2 days away)
Final Beta - Sept 28 (~4 weeks away)
Kernel Freeze - Oct 5 (~5 weeks away)
Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~6 weeks away)
Ubuntu 17.04 - Oct 19 (~7 weeks away)

We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kernel is currently based on Linux 4.12.9. The Artful staging kernel repository has been updated to 4.13-rc7. As a reminder, the Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.

Stable (Released & Supported)

  • The latest SRU cycle has been completed successfully and the following kernel updates have been promoted to -updates:

      trusty  3.13.0-129.178
      xenial  4.4.0-93.116
      zesty   4.10.0-33.37
    
    
      trusty/lts-xenial  4.4.0-93.116~14.04.1
      xenial/raspi2      4.4.0-1071.79
      xenial/snapdragon  4.4.0-1073.78
      xenial/aws         4.4.0-1032.41
      xenial/gke         4.4.0-1028.28
      xenial/hwe         4.10.0-33.37~16.04.1
      zesty/raspi2       4.10.0-1016.19
    
  • The following CVEs have been fixed by kernels promoted to -updates and -security:

    Trusty (3.13.0-129.178)

    • CVE-2017-1000112
    • CVE-2017-1000111
    • CVE-2016-7914
    • CVE-2017-7616
    • CVE-2017-7261
    • CVE-2017-7273
    • CVE-2017-7487
    • CVE-2017-7495

    Xenial (4.4.0-93.116)

    • CVE-2017-1000112
    • CVE-2017-1000111
    • CVE-2017-7495
    • CVE-2015-7837

    Zesty (4.10.0-33.37)

    • CVE-2017-1000112
    • CVE-2017-1000111
    • CVE-2017-7487
  • The following kernel snap updates have been uploaded to the snap store:
      xenial/pc-kernel           4.4.0.93.98
      xenial/pi2-kernel          4.4.0.1071.71
      xenial/dragonboard-kernel  4.4.0.1073.65
      xenial/aws-kernel          4.4.0.1032.34
      xenial/gke-kernel          4.4.0.1028.29
    
  • Current cycle: 25-Aug through 16-Sep
              25-Aug  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
     28-Aug - 02-Sep  Kernel prep week.
     03-Sep - 15-Sep  Bug verification & Regression testing.
              18-Sep  Release to -updates.
    
    
    
  • Next cycle: 15-Sep through 07-Oct
               15-Sep  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
      18-Sep - 23-Sep  Kernel prep week.
      24-Sep - 06-Oct  Bug verification & Regression testing.
               09-Oct  Release to -updates.
    

Misc

  • The Canonical Kernel Team is Hiring!
  • We’ve updated the bcc snap based on the Mon August 28th tip commit: a91ec385fd1c5da.
  • http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712168
    In Artful we enforce loading of only signed kernel modules under secure boot. We support self-signing of modules by enrolling a MOK key with shim and signing modules with that key. However a bug in our 4.12/4.13 kernels was causing the kernel to not use the MOK when validating signatures. A fix for that has been comitted and will be in the next artful-proposed kernel.
  • The current CVE status
  • If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel
    channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing
    list at: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com.

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