You can look at the manifest for the kernel:
$ wget --quiet -O -
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/artful/daily-live/20180105.1/artful-desktop-amd64.manifest
| grep ^linux- | grep -E 'image|headers|generic|signed'
linux-generic 4.13.0.21.22
linux-headers-4.13.0-21 4.13.0-21.24
linux-headers-4.13.0-21-generic 4.13.0-21.24
linux-headers-generic 4.13.0.21.22
linux-image-4.13.0-21-generic 4.13.0-21.24
linux-image-extra-4.13.0-21-generic 4.13.0-21.24
linux-image-generic 4.13.0.21.22
linux-signed-generic 4.13.0.21.22
linux-signed-image-4.13.0-21-generic 4.13.0-21.24
linux-signed-image-generic 4.13.0.21.22
If you read the description above, you find:
"Fix: The issue was fixed in kernel version 4.13.0-21 by configuring the
kernel so it is not compiled with Intel SPI support."
Looking on Launchpad for the linux source package (try !upkg linux in
DuckDuckGo), you can see 4.13.0-21.24 is in security for artful. Looking
at its [info page][1] one finds a changelog entry:
" * Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models (LP: #1734147)
- [Config] CONFIG_SPI_INTEL_SPI_PLATFORM=n"
That being said, this kernel does NOT load the SPI drivers at all and
will not suffer from this bug.
Do note that linux-*-generic packages are from a different source
package (linux-meta) and as such has a slightly different version
number.
[1]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/4.13.0-21.24
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