** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
  Gregory Herrero reported that the proof-of-concept for CVE-2019-14615
  indicates that the information leak is not fixed in the Bionic 4.15
  kernel as indicated by USN-4255-1:
  
   https://usn.ubuntu.com/4255-1/
  
  This only affects Ubuntu's 4.15 kernel series. Xenial (4.4), Disco
  (5.0), Eoan (5.3), and Focal (5.4) are not affected by this incomplete
  fix issue.
  
  I've verified this by testing each Ubuntu release with the proof-of-
  concept. I then tested vanilla 4.15 with commit bc8a76a152c5
  ("drm/i915/gen9: Clear residual context state on context switch")
  applied, which is the fix for CVE-2019-14615, and verified that the
  proof-of-concept showed that the info leak was still possible. I then
  tested vanilla 4.16 with commit bc8a76a152c5 applied to verify that the
  proof-of-concept showed that the info leak was fixed.
  
  After bisecting changes to the DRM subsystem as well as the i915 driver,
  it looks like commit d2b4b97933f5 ("drm/i915: Record the default hw
  state after reset upon load") as well as its prerequisites are necessary
  to fully fix CVE-2019-14615 in 4.15 based kernels.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  A proof-of-concept for CVE-2019-14615 became available once the issue
  was made public. It can be found here:
  
   https://github.com/HE-Wenjian/iGPU-Leak
  
  Steps to use the proof-of-concept:
  
   $ git clone https://github.com/HE-Wenjian/iGPU-Leak.git
  
   # In one terminal
   $ cd iGPU-Leak/demo/SLM_Leak/
   $ ./run_victim.sh
  
   # In another terminal
   $ cd iGPU-Leak/demo/SLM_Leak/
   $ ./run_attacker.sh
  
   # In the terminal running run_attacker.sh, ensure that all data dumped
   # to the terminal is zeros and that there is no non-zero data. You'll
   # have to closely monitor the script for a minute or so to ensure that
   # the information leak is not possible.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
- TODO
+ High as the changes are complex in comparison to the typical SRU.
+ However, the bulk of the change is to the initialization stages of the
+ driver and we're just pulling back changes that landed in 4.16-rc1 to
+ our 4.15 kernel. I don't see any later Fixes tags that reference the
+ needed commits.

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Title:
  [Bionic] i915 incomplete fix for CVE-2019-14615

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Gregory Herrero reported that the proof-of-concept for CVE-2019-14615
  indicates that the information leak is not fixed in the Bionic 4.15
  kernel as indicated by USN-4255-1:

   https://usn.ubuntu.com/4255-1/

  This only affects Ubuntu's 4.15 kernel series. Xenial (4.4), Disco
  (5.0), Eoan (5.3), and Focal (5.4) are not affected by this incomplete
  fix issue.

  I've verified this by testing each Ubuntu release with the proof-of-
  concept. I then tested vanilla 4.15 with commit bc8a76a152c5
  ("drm/i915/gen9: Clear residual context state on context switch")
  applied, which is the fix for CVE-2019-14615, and verified that the
  proof-of-concept showed that the info leak was still possible. I then
  tested vanilla 4.16 with commit bc8a76a152c5 applied to verify that
  the proof-of-concept showed that the info leak was fixed.

  After bisecting changes to the DRM subsystem as well as the i915
  driver, it looks like commit d2b4b97933f5 ("drm/i915: Record the
  default hw state after reset upon load") as well as its prerequisites
  are necessary to fully fix CVE-2019-14615 in 4.15 based kernels.

  [Test Case]

  A proof-of-concept for CVE-2019-14615 became available once the issue
  was made public. It can be found here:

   https://github.com/HE-Wenjian/iGPU-Leak

  Steps to use the proof-of-concept:

   $ git clone https://github.com/HE-Wenjian/iGPU-Leak.git

   # In one terminal
   $ cd iGPU-Leak/demo/SLM_Leak/
   $ ./run_victim.sh

   # In another terminal
   $ cd iGPU-Leak/demo/SLM_Leak/
   $ ./run_attacker.sh

   # In the terminal running run_attacker.sh, ensure that all data dumped
   # to the terminal is zeros and that there is no non-zero data. You'll
   # have to closely monitor the script for a minute or so to ensure that
   # the information leak is not possible.

  [Regression Potential]

  High as the changes are complex in comparison to the typical SRU.
  However, the bulk of the change is to the initialization stages of the
  driver and we're just pulling back changes that landed in 4.16-rc1 to
  our 4.15 kernel. I don't see any later Fixes tags that reference the
  needed commits.

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