UBUNTU: Ubuntu-4.15.0-8.9

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>

debian.master/changelog

@@ -1,10 +1,96 @@
-linux (4.15.0-8.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+linux (4.15.0-8.9) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * linux: 4.15.0-8.9 -proposed tracker (LP: #1748075)
+
+  * Bionic update to v4.15.2 stable release (LP: #1748072)
+    - KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
+    - KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
+    - module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module
+    - x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf
+    - x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control
+    - x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control
+    - x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs
+    - x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown
+    - x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes
+    - x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
+    - x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers
+    - x86/nospec: Fix header guards names
+    - x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
+    - x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional
+    - x86/cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags
+    - x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()
+    - x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
+    - auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
+    - iio: adc/accel: Fix up module licenses
+    - pinctrl: pxa: pxa2xx: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
+    - ASoC: pcm512x: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
+    - KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool
+    - KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs
+    - objtool: Improve retpoline alternative handling
+    - objtool: Add support for alternatives at the end of a section
+    - objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol
+    - x86/mm: Fix overlap of i386 CPU_ENTRY_AREA with FIX_BTMAP
+    - x86/spectre: Check CONFIG_RETPOLINE in command line parser
+    - x86/entry/64: Remove the SYSCALL64 fast path
+    - x86/entry/64: Push extra regs right away
+    - x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info
+    - Documentation: Document array_index_nospec
+    - array_index_nospec: Sanitize speculative array de-references
+    - x86: Implement array_index_mask_nospec
+    - x86: Introduce barrier_nospec
+    - x86: Introduce __uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec
+    - x86/usercopy: Replace open coded stac/clac with __uaccess_{begin, end}
+    - x86/uaccess: Use __uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec
+    - x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation
+    - x86/syscall: Sanitize syscall table de-references under speculation
+    - vfs, fdtable: Prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
+    - nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params
+    - x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1
+    - x86/spectre: Fix spelling mistake: "vunerable"-> "vulnerable"
+    - x86/cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel
+    - x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
+    - x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option
+    - KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
+    - x86/kvm: Update spectre-v1 mitigation
+    - x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
+    - x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing
+    - x86/pti: Mark constant arrays as __initconst
+    - x86/speculation: Fix typo IBRS_ATT, which should be IBRS_ALL
+    - KVM/x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX
+    - KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
+    - KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
+    - KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
+    - KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
+    - serial: core: mark port as initialized after successful IRQ change
+    - fpga: region: release of_parse_phandle nodes after use
+    - Linux 4.15.2
+
+  * Add support for the NIC on SynQuacer E-Series boards (LP: #1747792)
+    - net: phy: core: remove now uneeded disabling of interrupts
+    - [Config] CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SOCIONEXT=y & CONFIG_SNI_NETSEC=m
+    - net: socionext: Add Synquacer NetSec driver
+    - net: socionext: include linux/io.h to fix build
+    - net: socionext: Fix error return code in netsec_netdev_open()
+
+  * [Artful/Bionic] [Config] enable EDAC_GHES for ARM64 (LP: #1747746)
+    - [Config] CONFIG_EDAC_GHES=y
+
+  * support thunderx2 vendor pmu events (LP: #1747523)
+    - perf pmu: Pass pmu as a parameter to get_cpuid_str()
+    - perf tools arm64: Add support for get_cpuid_str function.
+    - perf pmu: Add helper function is_pmu_core to detect PMU CORE devices
+    - perf vendor events arm64: Add ThunderX2 implementation defined pmu core
+      events
+    - perf pmu: Add check for valid cpuid in perf_pmu__find_map()
 
-  CHANGELOG: Do not edit directly. Autogenerated at release.
-  CHANGELOG: Use the printchanges target to see the curent changes.
-  CHANGELOG: Use the insertchanges target to create the final log.
+  * linux 4.14.0-7.9 ADT test failure with linux 4.14.0-7.9 (LP: #1732463)
+    - SAUCE: mm: disable vma based swap readahead by default
+    - SAUCE: mm: fix memory hotplug in ZONE_HIGHMEM
+
+  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
+    - [Config] Fix CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES annotations
 
- -- Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>  Wed, 07 Feb 2018 07:15:02 -0600
+ -- Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>  Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:13:27 -0600
 
 linux (4.15.0-7.8) bionic; urgency=medium