In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: Fix crash in auto_retire The retire logic uses the 2 lower bits of the pointer to the retire function to store flags. However, the auto_retire function is not guaranteed to be aligned to a multiple of 4, which causes crashes as we jump to the wrong address, for example like this: 2021-04-24T18:03:53.804300Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876901] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI 2021-04-24T18:03:53.804310Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876906] CPU: 7 PID: 146 Comm: kworker/u16:6 Tainted: G U 5.4.105-13595-g3cd84167b2df #1 2021-04-24T18:03:53.804311Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876907] Hardware name: Google Volteer2/Volteer2, BIOS Google_Volteer2.13672.76.0 02/22/2021 2021-04-24T18:03:53.804312Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876911] Workqueue: events_unbound active_work 2021-04-24T18:03:53.804313Z WARNING kernel: [ 516.876914] RIP: 0010:auto_retire+0x1/0x20 2021-04-24T18:03:53.804314Z WARNING kernel: [ 516…