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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2025-21728

CVE-2025-21728

Description

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

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible

BPF programs can execute in all kinds of contexts and when a program running in a non-preemptible context uses the bpf_send_signal() kfunc, it will cause issues because this kfunc can sleep. Change irqs_disabled() to !preemptible().

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