Database/Control plane, storage & DevOps
Linux cpufreq/amd-pstate - memory leak on CPU EPP exit: The amd-pstate driver leaks its per-CPU allocation when a CPU's
Impact
The amd-pstate driver leaks its per-CPU allocation when a CPU's energy-performance-preference path exits. Each CPU hotplug or governor transition drops memory on the floor - slow, but on a long-lived host that cycles power states under variable AI load it accumulates into unreclaimable kernel memory and eventually pressures every workload on the node.
Who can reach it
Local, driven by CPU hotplug and power-governor transitions rather than by an attacker directly - though a tenant that can influence CPU frequency governors can accelerate it.
What to do
Fixed in the Linux kernel. Distro kernel update plus reboot; no firmware step. Group it with the other amd-pstate fixes rather than scheduling a window for it alone.
References
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