CVE-2025-21981

Summary

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 …

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < ef2bc94059836a115430a6ad9d2838b0b34dc8f5affected
LinuxLinux28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < e6902101f34f098af59b0d1d8cf90c4124c02c6aaffected
LinuxLinux28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < fcbacc47d16306c87ad1b820b7a575f6e9eae58baffected
LinuxLinux28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 5d30d256661fc11b6e73fac6c3783a702e1006a3affected
LinuxLinux28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 3b27e6e10a32589fcd293b8933ab6de9387a460eaffected
LinuxLinux28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 78f3d64b30210c0e521c59357431aca14024cb79affected
LinuxLinux28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 23d97f18901ef5e4e264e3b1777fe65c760186b5affected
LinuxLinux5.8affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.8unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.236 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.180 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.132 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.84 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.20 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.13.8 <= 6.13.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.14 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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