** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Quan Luo and ycq from Codesafe Team of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group
  reported a use-after-free issue in the i915 driver. This issue has been
  fixed in the upstream kernel starting in v5.2 with the following commit:
  
  
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7dc40713618c884bf07c030d1ab1f47a9dc1f310
  
  The flaw was introduced in v4.14 with this change:
  
  
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1acfc104cdf8a3408f0e83b4115d4419c6315005
  
  The problem can be fixed by expanding the usage of struct_mutex to
- include the GEM context lookup.
+ include the GEM context lookup. A fix has been submitted to the upstream
+ stable list:
+ 
+ 
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20200114183937.12224-1-tyhi...@canonical.com/T/#u
  
  [Test Case]
  
  Enable KASAN and exercise the affected code path using the PoC provided
  by Quan Luo.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
  Low. This approach was suggested by upstream and has been well tested.

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