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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21771

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 10:15:17 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

sched_ext: Fix incorrect autogroup migration detection

scx_move_task() is called from sched_move_task() and tells the BPF scheduler
that cgroup migration is being committed. sched_move_task() is used by both
cgroup and autogroup migrations and scx_move_task() tried to filter out
autogroup migrations by testing the destination cgroup and PF_EXITING but
this is not enough. In fact, without explicitly tagging the thread which is
doing the cgroup migration, there is no good way to tell apart
scx_move_task() invocations for racing migration to the root cgroup and an
autogroup migration.

This led to scx_move_task() incorrectly ignoring a migration from non-root
cgroup to an autogroup of the root cgroup triggering the following warning:

  WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1 at kernel/sched/ext.c:3725 scx_cgroup_can_attach+0x196/0x340
  ...
  Call Trace:
  <TASK>
    cgroup_migrate_execute+0x5b1/0x700
    cgroup_attach_task+0x296/0x400
    __cgroup_procs_write+0x128/0x140
    cgroup_procs_write+0x17/0x30
    kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x141/0x1f0
    vfs_write+0x31d/0x4a0
    __x64_sys_write+0x72/0xf0
    do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Fix it by adding an argument to sched_move_task() that indicates whether the
moving is for a cgroup or autogroup migration. After the change,
scx_move_task() is called only for cgroup migrations and renamed to
scx_cgroup_move_task().
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75bf2f80c046d2ec5a07455891ea0a9fb6d8b5f6
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6f3e7d564b2309e1f17e709a70eca78d7ca2bb8
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8b510d0ddc65d8a71e0f9a3acc9ed5f010fc514