Considering that this is a regression, with major impact (TTY login no longer possible, often no graphical login either), many affected users on (amongst other) the latest LTS release, and both this fact and how to fix it has been known since at least January 30, I am puzzled as to why this is being handled as an update with the default stable release cadence.
Could you kindly explain the following (since I may just be misunderstanding how things are handled): Was rolling back the breaking (since incomplete) patchset (which introduced this issue) not an option? Has testing on 18.04 and 16.04 brought up new problems, which would have had even more serious impact? How is "importance" calculated (personally I would have set it to "critical" or "major", if those are available)? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813873 Title: Userspace break as a result of missing patch backport Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Bug description: Hi, The most recent set of Ubuntu kernels applied a variety of tty patches including: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c96cf923a98d1b094df9f0cf97a83e118817e31b But have not applied the more recent https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d3736d82e8169768218ee0ef68718875918091a0 patch. This second patch is required to prevent a rather serious regression where userspace applications reading from stdin can receive EAGAIN when they should not. I will try to link correspondence from the mailing list archives once they are available, but for now if you have access to the linux- console mailing list you can find discussion under the thread "Userspace break? read from STDIN returns EAGAIN if tty is "touched"". I would appreciate it if this could be examined soon as it is a regression on userspace. Thanks Michael Good: 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 Bad: 4.15.0-44-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 14 11:26:59 UTC 2019 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1813873/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
