CVE-2025-21886 Affecting kernel-64k-debug-modules-core package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64k-debug-modules-core package and not the kernel-64k-debug-modules-core package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

RDMA/mlx5: Fix implicit ODP hang on parent deregistration

Fix the destroy_unused_implicit_child_mr() to prevent hanging during parent deregistration as of below [1].

Upon entering destroy_unused_implicit_child_mr(), the reference count for the implicit MR parent is incremented using: refcount_inc_not_zero().

A corresponding decrement must be performed if free_implicit_child_mr_work() is not called.

The code has been updated to properly manage the reference count that was incremented.

[1] INFO: task python3:2157 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7+ #1633 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:python3 state:D stack:0 pid:2157 tgid:2157 ppid:1685 flags:0x00000000 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x420/0xd30 schedule+0x47/0x130 __mlx5_ib_dereg_mr+0x379/0x5d0 [mlx5_ib] ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10 ib_dereg_mr_user+0x5f/0x120 [ib_core] ? lock_release+0xc6/0x280 destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x1d/0x60 [ib_uverbs] uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x58/0x1d0 [ib_uverbs] uobj_destroy+0x3f/0x70 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x3e4/0xbb0 [ib_uverbs] ? __pfx_uverbs_destroy_def_handler+0x10/0x10 [ib_uverbs] ? lock_acquire+0xc1/0x2f0 ? ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xcb/0x170 [ib_uverbs] ? ib_uverbs_ioctl+0x116/0x170 [ib_uverbs] ? lock_release+0xc6/0x280 ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xe7/0x170 [ib_uverbs] ? ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xcb/0x170 [ib_uverbs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1b0/0xa70 ? kmem_cache_free+0x221/0x400 do_syscall_64+0x6b/0x140 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7f20f21f017b RSP: 002b:00007ffcfc4a77c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcfc4a78d8 RCX: 00007f20f21f017b RDX: 00007ffcfc4a78c0 RSI: 00000000c0181b01 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffcfc4a78a0 R08: 000056147d125190 R09: 00007f20f1f14c60 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffcfc4a7890 R13: 000000000000001c R14: 000056147d100fc0 R15: 00007f20e365c9d0 </TASK>

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21886
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d8c6f26893d55fab218ad086719de1fc9bb86ba
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a095ede2daca49d15e74d66d014883f2fa8bb924
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb96ae783e7249e8e5a50c22952c0bb2983133df