CVE-2025-21981
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
ice: fix memory leak in aRFS after reset
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 ...
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d | affected | git | ef2bc94059836a115430a6ad9d2838b0b34dc8f5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d | affected | git | e6902101f34f098af59b0d1d8cf90c4124c02c6a | Unavailable | None listed |
| 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d | affected | git | fcbacc47d16306c87ad1b820b7a575f6e9eae58b | Unavailable | None listed |
| 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d | affected | git | 5d30d256661fc11b6e73fac6c3783a702e1006a3 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d | affected | git | 3b27e6e10a32589fcd293b8933ab6de9387a460e | Unavailable | None listed |
| 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d | affected | git | 78f3d64b30210c0e521c59357431aca14024cb79 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d | affected | git | 23d97f18901ef5e4e264e3b1777fe65c760186b5 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.236 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.180 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.132 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.84 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.20 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.13.8 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.13.* | None listed |
| 6.14 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |