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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21889"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T14:57:15.897Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:51:54.984Z"
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-2025-21889"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21889.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21889"
title: "perf/core: Add RCU read lock protection to perf_iterate_ctx()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/core: Add RCU read lock protection to perf_iterate_ctx()\n\nThe perf_iterate_ctx() function performs RCU list traversal but\ncurrently lacks RCU read lock protection. This causes lockdep warnings\nwhen running perf probe with unshare(1) under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y:\n\n\tWARNING: suspicious RCU usage\n\tkernel/events/core.c:8168 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!\n\n\t Call Trace:\n\t  lockdep_rcu_suspicious\n\t  ? perf_event_addr_filters_apply\n\t  perf_iterate_ctx\n\t  perf_event_exec\n\t  begin_new_exec\n\t  ? load_elf_phdrs\n\t  load_elf_binary\n\t  ? lock_acquire\n\t  ? find_held_lock\n\t  ? bprm_execve\n\t  bprm_execve\n\t  do_execveat_common.isra.0\n\t  __x64_sys_execve\n\t  do_syscall_64\n\t  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe\n\nThis protection was previously present but was removed in commit\nbd2756811766 (\"perf: Rewrite core context handling\"). Add back the\nnecessary rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair around\nperf_iterate_ctx() call in perf_event_exec().\n\n[ mingo: Use scoped_guard() as suggested by Peter ]"
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