CVE-2025-21938
CVE-2025-21938CVE-2025-21938
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: fix 'scheduling while atomic' in mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr
If multiple connection requests attempt to create an implicit mptcp
endpoint in parallel, more than one caller may end up in
mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr because none found the address in
local_addr_list during their call to mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id. In this
case, the concurrent new_local_addr calls may delete the address entry
created by the previous caller. These deletes use synchronize_rcu, but
this is not permitted in some of the contexts where this function may be
called. During packet recv, the caller may be in a rcu read critical
section and have preemption disabled.
An example stack:
BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/2/0/0x00000302
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:117 (discriminator 1))
dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:124)
__schedule_bug (kernel/sched/core.c:5943)
schedule_debug.constpr
Scoring
| CVSS | 4.7 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-14 |