CVE-2025-21981
Published: Apr 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix memory leak in aRFS after reset Fix aRFS (accelerated Receive Flow Steering) structures memory leak by adding a checker to verify if aRFS memory is already allocated while configuring VSI. aRFS objects are allocated in two cases: - as part of VSI initialization (at probe), and - as part of reset handling However, VSI reconfiguration executed during reset involves memory allocation one more time, without prior releasing already allocated resources. This led to the memory leak with the following signature: [root@os-delivery ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xff3c1ca7252e6000 (size 8192): comm "kworker/0:0", pid 8, jiffies 4296833052 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 0): [<ffffffff991ec485>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x275/0x340 [<ffffffffc0a6e06a>] ice_init_arfs+0x3a/0xe0 [ice] [<ffffffffc09f1027>] ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x607/0x850 [ice] [<ffffffffc09f244b>] ice_vsi_setup+0x5b/0x130 [ice] [<ffffffffc09c2131>] ice_init+0x1c1/0x460 [ice] [<ffffffffc09c64af>] ice_probe+0x2af/0x520 [ice] [<ffffffff994fbcd3>] local_pci_probe+0x43/0xa0 [<ffffffff98f07103>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff98f0b6d9>] process_one_work+0x179/0x390 [<ffffffff98f0c1e9>] worker_thread+0x239/0x340 [<ffffffff98f14abc>] kthread+0xcc/0x100 [<ffffffff98e45a6d>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50 [<ffffffff98e083ba>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 ...
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d - < ef2bc94059836a115430a6ad9d2838b0b34dc8f5affected 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d - < e6902101f34f098af59b0d1d8cf90c4124c02c6aaffected 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d - < fcbacc47d16306c87ad1b820b7a575f6e9eae58baffected 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d - < 5d30d256661fc11b6e73fac6c3783a702e1006a3affected 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d - < 3b27e6e10a32589fcd293b8933ab6de9387a460e+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.8unaffected 0 - < 5.8unaffected 5.10.236 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.180 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.132 - <= 6.1.*+4 more versions |
References
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