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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40163"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-12T10:26:23.199Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:05:34.972Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-40163"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40163.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40163"
title: "sched/deadline: Stop dl_server before CPU goes offline"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/deadline: Stop dl_server before CPU goes offline\n\nIBM CI tool reported kernel warning[1] when running a CPU removal\noperation through drmgr[2]. i.e \"drmgr -c cpu -r -q 1\"\n\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:219 cpudl_set+0x58/0x170\nNIP [c0000000002b6ed8] cpudl_set+0x58/0x170\nLR [c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0\nCall Trace:\n[c000000002c2f8c0] init_stack+0x78c0/0x8000 (unreliable)\n[c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0\n[c00000000034df84] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1a4/0x390\n[c00000000034f624] hrtimer_interrupt+0x124/0x300\n[c00000000002a230] timer_interrupt+0x140/0x320\n\nGit bisects to: commit 4ae8d9aa9f9d (\"sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck\")\n\nThis happens since:\n- dl_server hrtimer gets enqueued close to cpu offline, when\n  kthread_park enqueues a fair task.\n- CPU goes offline and drmgr removes it from cpu_present_mask.\n- hrtimer fires and warning is hit.\n\nFix it by stopping the dl_server before CPU is marked dead.\n\n[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8218e149-7718-4432-9312-f97297c352b9@linux.ibm.com/\n[2]: https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils/tree/next/src/drmgr\n\n[sshegde: wrote the changelog and tested it]"
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