Weekly Kernel Development Summary – Aug 9, 2017

This is the Ubuntu Kernel Team highlights and status for the week.

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: [email protected].

Highlights

• Add virtualbox guest driver to artful 4.13 kernel
• Start work on 4.12-based raspi2 kernel for artful
• Added aufs driver to 4.13 artful kernel
• Update 4.12 artful kernel to v4.12.5
• Rebase 4.13 artful kernel to v4.13-rc4
• Upload 4.11.0-12.18 to artful-proposed
• Stress-ng 0.08.10 released; improvements on the dirdeep stressor and fixes on the job script parsing
• intel-cmt-cat 1.1.0 released; (Intel Platform Quality of Service and Cache Allocation Technology tools)

• The following SRU kernels have been promoted to -updates and -security:

  Trusty   3.13.0-126.175
  Xenial   4.4.0-89.112
  Zesty    4.10.0-30.34
  
  
  trusty/lts-xenial  4.4.0-89.112~14.04.1
  xenial/hwe         4.10.0-30.34~16.04.1
  xenial/raspi2      4.4.0-1067.75
  xenial/snapdragon  4.4.0-1069.74
  xenial/aws         4.4.0-1028.37
  xenial/gke         4.4.0-1024.24
  zesty/raspi2       4.10.0-1013.16
  

  • Embargoed CVE-2017-7533 has been made public and the fix released for all the affected kernels.

  • CVE’s fixed by the kernels published on -updates and -security:

  Trusty:

  • CVE-2017-1000364
  • CVE-2017-7482
  • CVE-2017-1000365
  • CVE-2016-8405
  • CVE-2017-2618

  Xenial:

  • CVE-2017-7533
  • CVE-2017-10810

  Zesty:

  • CVE-2017-7533
  • CVE-2017-1000364
  • CVE-2017-7482
  • CVE-2017-1000365

  • CVE-2017-10810

  • Two new kernel snaps are now being distributed: aws-kernel and gke-kernel.

  • The following kernel snaps have been uploaded to the snapcraft store:

  • aws-kernel 4.4.0.1028.31

  • gke-kernel 4.4.0.1024.26
  • pc-kernel 4.4.0.89.95
  • pi2-kernel 4.4.0.1067.68
  • dragonboard-kernel 4.4.0.1069.62

Development Kernel Announcements

We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.11. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.

Stable Kernel Announcements

• Current cycle: 04-Aug through 26-Aug

           04-Aug  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
  07-Aug - 12-Aug  Kernel prep week.
  13-Aug - 25-Aug  Bug verification & Regression testing.
           28-Aug  Release to -updates.
  

• Next 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.
  

• The current CVE status