[ubuntu/yakkety-security] linux 4.8.0-34.36 (Accepted)

[Łukasz Zemczak]

linux (4.8.0-34.36) yakkety; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1651800

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - SAUCE: Do not build the xr-usb-serial driver for s390

linux (4.8.0-33.35) yakkety; urgency=low

  [ Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1651721

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * crypto : tolerate new crypto hardware for z Systems (LP: #1644557)
    - s390/zcrypt: Introduce CEX6 toleration

  * Several new Asus laptops are missing touchpad support (LP: #1650895)
    - HID: asus: Add i2c touchpad support

  * Acer, Inc ID 5986:055a is useless after 14.04.2 installed. (LP: #1433906)
    - uvcvideo: uvc_scan_fallback() for webcams with broken chain

  * cdc_ether fills kernel log (LP: #1626371)
    - cdc_ether: Fix handling connection notification

  * Kernel Fixes to get TCMU File Backed Optical to work (LP: #1646204)
    - SAUCE: target/user: Fix use-after-free of tcmu_cmds if they are expired

  * CVE-2016-9756
    - KVM: x86: drop error recovery in em_jmp_far and em_ret_far

  * On boot excessive number of kworker threads are running (LP: #1649905)
    - slub: move synchronize_sched out of slab_mutex on shrink

  * Ethernet not work after upgrade from kernel 3.19 to 4.4 [10ec:8168]
    (LP: #1648279)
    - ACPI / blacklist: Make Dell Latitude 3350 ethernet work

  * Ubuntu 16.10 netboot install fails with "Oops: Exception in kernel mode,
    sig: 5 [#1] " (lpfc) (LP: #1648873)
    - scsi: lpfc: fix oops/BUG in lpfc_sli_ringtxcmpl_put()

  * CVE-2016-9793
    - net: avoid signed overflows for SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE

  * [Hyper-V] Kernel panic not functional on 32bit Ubuntu 14.10, 15.04, and
    15.10 (LP: #1400319)
    - Drivers: hv: avoid vfree() on crash

  * d-i is missing usb support for platforms that use the xhci-platform driver
    (LP: #1625222)
    - d-i initrd needs additional usb modules to support the merlin platform

  * overlayfs no longer supports nested overlayfs mounts, but there is a fix
    upstream (LP: #1647007)
    - ovl: fix d_real() for stacked fs

  * Yakkety: arm64: CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_845719 isn't enabled (LP: #1647793)
    - [Config] CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_845719=y

  * Ubuntu16.10 - EEH on BELL3 adapter fails to recover (serial/tty)
    (LP: #1646857)
    - serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during PCI error recovery

  * Driver for Exar USB UART (LP: #1645591)
    - SAUCE: xr-usb-serial: Driver for Exar USB serial ports
    - SAUCE: xr-usb-serial: interface for switching modes
    - SAUCE: cdc-acm: Exclude Exar USB serial ports

  * [Bug] (Purley) x86/hpet: Reduce HPET counter read contention (LP: #1645928)
    - x86/hpet: Reduce HPET counter read contention

  * Need Alps upstream their new touchpad driver (LP: #1571530)
    - Input: ALPS - add touchstick support for SS5 hardware
    - Input: ALPS - handle 0-pressure 1F events
    - Input: ALPS - allow touchsticks to report pressure
    - Input: ALPS - set DualPoint flag for 74 03 28 devices

  * CONFIG_NR_CPUS=256 is too low (LP: #1579205)
    - [Config] Increase the NR_CPUS to 512 for amd64 to support systems with a
      large number of cores.

Date: 2016-12-21 17:19:14.189500+00:00
Changed-By: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-By: Łukasz Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/4.8.0-34.36
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