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CVE-2025-21657

kernel: sched_ext: Replace rq_lock() to raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass()

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Severity

Unknown

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CVSS

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Published · January 21, 2025

Updated · November 25, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched_ext: Replace rq_lock() to raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass()

scx_ops_bypass() iterates all CPUs to re-enqueue all the scx tasks. For each CPU, it acquires a lock using rq_lock() regardless of whether a CPU is offline or the CPU is currently running a task in a higher scheduler class (e.g., deadline). The rq_lock() is supposed to be used for online CPUs, and the use of rq_lock() may trigger an unnecessary warning in rq_pin_lock(). Therefore, replace rq_lock() to raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass().

Without this change, we observe the following warning:

===== START ===== [ 6.615205] rq->balance_callback && rq->balance_callback != &balance_push_callback [ 6.615208] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1730 __schedule+0x1130/0x1c90 ===== END =====

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

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