Bug 2356627 (CVE-2025-21981) - CVE-2025-21981 kernel: ice: fix memory leak in aRFS after reset
Summary: CVE-2025-21981 kernel: ice: fix memory leak in aRFS after reset
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21981
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-04-01 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-02 02:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-01 16:03:19 UTC
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
    ...


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