Kernel upgrade to 5.15.179.1

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Merge Checklist

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• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
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• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
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• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

Upgrade to LTS version 5.15.179.1

This upgrade required an update to kernel-hci's patches
CONFIG_BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD=y was also introduced as a result of microsoft/CBL-Mariner-Linux-Kernel@6327dac . Keeping on to continue to support legacy behavior on 5.15

Change Log

• Kernel upgrade to 5.15.179.1

Does this affect the toolchain?

YES

Test Methodology

• Pipeline build id: https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=780144&view=results

AMD - Standard_D16s_v4

*** Smoke Testing Kernel 5.15.179.1-1.cm2 (est. < 1 min) ***
PASS: Kernel version matches the running kernel version.
PASS: eth0 interface is up.
PASS: iptables service is running.
Boot times:
Startup finished in 1.263s (kernel) + 1.288s (initrd) + 4.368s (userspace) = 6.921s 
multi-user.target reached after 4.037s in userspace
Kernel size:
-rw------- 1 root root 12890784 Apr  5 01:05 /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.179.1-1.cm2
27488	/lib/modules/5.15.179.1-1.cm2
kernel memory:
MemTotal:       65581580 kB
MemFree:        63805812 kB
MemAvailable:   64347992 kB
Total memory:
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           64044         645       62310           0        1088       62839
Swap:              0           0           0

ARM - Standard_D16ps_v6

*** Smoke Testing Kernel 5.15.179.1-1.cm2 (est. < 1 min) ***
PASS: Kernel version matches the running kernel version.
PASS: eth0 interface is up.
PASS: iptables service is running.
Boot times:
Startup finished in 318ms (kernel) + 913ms (initrd) + 4.645s (userspace) = 5.876s 
multi-user.target reached after 4.407s in userspace
Kernel size:
-rw------- 1 root root 43909632 Apr  5 01:31 /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.179.1-1.cm2
46968	/lib/modules/5.15.179.1-1.cm2
kernel memory:
MemTotal:       65460060 kB
MemFree:        64193104 kB
MemAvailable:   64259276 kB
Total memory:
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           63925         615       62688           0         621       62753
Swap:              0           0           0