# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21657"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-21T12:18:13.893Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:03:55.074Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21657"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21657.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21657"
title: "sched_ext: Replace rq_lock() to raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched_ext: Replace rq_lock() to raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass()\n\nscx_ops_bypass() iterates all CPUs to re-enqueue all the scx tasks.\nFor each CPU, it acquires a lock using rq_lock() regardless of whether\na CPU is offline or the CPU is currently running a task in a higher\nscheduler class (e.g., deadline). The rq_lock() is supposed to be used\nfor online CPUs, and the use of rq_lock() may trigger an unnecessary\nwarning in rq_pin_lock(). Therefore, replace rq_lock() to\nraw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass().\n\nWithout this change, we observe the following warning:\n\n===== START =====\n[    6.615205] rq-\u003ebalance_callback && rq-\u003ebalance_callback != &balance_push_callback\n[    6.615208] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1730 __schedule+0x1130/0x1c90\n=====  END  ====="
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0e7ffff1b8117b05635c87d3c9099f6aa9c9b689","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9e446dd63cee7161717a6a8414ba9c6435af764"},{"version":"0e7ffff1b8117b05635c87d3c9099f6aa9c9b689","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6268d5bc10354fc2ab8d44a0cd3b042d49a0417e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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