Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-21771
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().
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 7.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2025-21771
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.15
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14