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CVE-2025-21981

MEDIUM 5.5

ice: fix memory leak in aRFS after reset

CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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 ...

Vendor linux
Product linux
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Published Apr 1, 2025
Last Updated May 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < ef2bc94059836a115430a6ad9d2838b0b34dc8f5 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < e6902101f34f098af59b0d1d8cf90c4124c02c6a 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < fcbacc47d16306c87ad1b820b7a575f6e9eae58b 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 5d30d256661fc11b6e73fac6c3783a702e1006a3 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 3b27e6e10a32589fcd293b8933ab6de9387a460e 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 78f3d64b30210c0e521c59357431aca14024cb79 28bf26724fdb0e02267d19e280d6717ee810a10d < 23d97f18901ef5e4e264e3b1777fe65c760186b5
Linux / Linux
5.8

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef2bc94059836a115430a6ad9d2838b0b34dc8f5 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6902101f34f098af59b0d1d8cf90c4124c02c6a git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcbacc47d16306c87ad1b820b7a575f6e9eae58b git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d30d256661fc11b6e73fac6c3783a702e1006a3 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b27e6e10a32589fcd293b8933ab6de9387a460e git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78f3d64b30210c0e521c59357431aca14024cb79 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23d97f18901ef5e4e264e3b1777fe65c760186b5 lists.debian.org: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html