CVE-2025-21816 hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHPAPHRTIMERSDYING hrtimers are migrated away from the dying CPU to any online target at the CPUHPAPHRTIMERSDYING stage in order not to delay bandwidth timers handling tasks...

CVE-2025-21816 hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHPAPHRTIMERSDYING hrtimers are migrated away from the dying CPU to any online target at the CPUHPAPHRTIMERSDYING stage in order not to delay bandwidth timers handling tasks...

CVE-2025-21816

CVE-2025-21816 affects the Linux kernel hrtimers subsystem. The issue arises when hrtimers queued on an offline CPU can wake up and arm the deadline timer after CPU hotplug stage CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING, potentially impacting bandwidth timer handling (notably RCU-related wakeups). The documented ...