Improper Locking The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELHEADERS-11150987
  • published29 Jul 2025
  • disclosed20 May 2025

Introduced: 20 May 2025

CVE-2025-37940  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

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

ftrace: Add cond_resched() to ftrace_graph_set_hash()

When the kernel contains a large number of functions that can be traced, the loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() may take a lot of time to execute. This may trigger the softlockup watchdog.

Add cond_resched() within the loop to allow the kernel to remain responsive even when processing a large number of functions.

This matches the cond_resched() that is used in other locations of the code that iterates over all functions that can be traced.