CVE-2025-21829RDMA/rxe: Fix the warning "__rxe_cleanup+0x12c/0x170 [rdma_rxe]"
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.40%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 65% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix the warning "__rxe_cleanup+0x12c/0x170 [rdma_rxe]" The Call Trace is as below: " <TASK> ? show_regs.cold+0x1a/0x1f ? __rxe_cleanup+0x12c/0x170 [rdma_rxe] ? __warn+0x84/0xd0 ? __rxe_cleanup+0x12c/0x170 [rdma_rxe] ? report_bug+0x105/0x180 ? handle_bug+0x46/0x80 ? exc_invalid_op+0x19/0x70 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 ? __rxe_cleanup+0x12c/0x170 [rdma_rxe] ? __rxe_cleanup+0x124/0x170 [rdma_rxe] rxe_destroy_qp.cold+0x24/0x29 [rdma_rxe] ib_destroy_qp_user+0x118/0x190 [ib_core] rdma_destroy_qp.cold+0x43/0x5e [rdma_cm] rtrs_cq_qp_destroy.cold+0x1d/0x2b [rtrs_core] rtrs_srv_close_work.cold+0x1b/0x31 [rtrs_server] process_one_work+0x21d/0x3f0 worker_thread+0x4a/0x3c0 ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0 kthread+0xf0/0x120 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> " When too many rdma resources are allocated, rxe needs more time to handle these rdma resources. Sometimes with the current timeout, rxe can not release the rdma resources correctly. Compared with other rdma drivers, a bigger timeout is used.
Timeline
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By Linux
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinuxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- affected 215d0a755e1bcd92cbe6a71a21194ce7c82ec106 – < 720653309dd31c8a927ef5d87964578ad544980f
- affected 215d0a755e1bcd92cbe6a71a21194ce7c82ec106 – < 45e567800492088bc52c9abac35524b4d332a8f8
- affected 215d0a755e1bcd92cbe6a71a21194ce7c82ec106 – < 7a2de8126ed3801f2396720e10a03cd546a3cea1
- affected 215d0a755e1bcd92cbe6a71a21194ce7c82ec106 – < a7d15eaecf0d6e13226db629ae2401c8c02683e5
- affected 215d0a755e1bcd92cbe6a71a21194ce7c82ec106 – < edc4ef0e0154096d6c0cf5e06af6fc330dbad9d1
- affected 6.0
- unaffected < 6.0
- unaffected 6.1.129 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.76 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.13 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.13.2 – ≤ 6.13.*
- unaffected 6.14 – ≤ *
References
References6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/720653309dd31c8a927ef5d87964578ad544980f (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45e567800492088bc52c9abac35524b4d332a8f8 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a2de8126ed3801f2396720e10a03cd546a3cea1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d15eaecf0d6e13226db629ae2401c8c02683e5 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edc4ef0e0154096d6c0cf5e06af6fc330dbad9d1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-6216 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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