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CVE-2025-21655
medium
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/eventfd: ensure io_eventfd_signal() defers another RCU period io_eventfd_do_signal() is invoked from an RCU callback, but when dropping the reference to the io_ev_fd, it calls io_eventfd_free() directly if the refcount drops to zero. This isn't correct, as any potential freeing of the io_ev_fd should be deferred another RCU grace period. Just call io_eventfd_put() rather than open-code the dec-and-test and free, which will correctly defer it another RCU grace period.
References
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9a40292a44e78f71258b8522655bffaf5753bdb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7085c3ae43b86d4b3d1b8275e6a67f14257e3b7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8efff2aa2d95dc437ab67c5b4a9f1d3f367baa10
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b63308c28987c6010b1180c72a6db4df6c68033