CVE-2025-40305
Published: Dec 8, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: 9p/trans_fd: p9_fd_request: kick rx thread if EPOLLIN p9_read_work() doesn't set Rworksched and doesn't do schedule_work(m->rq) if list_empty(&m->req_list). However, if the pipe is full, we need to read more data and this used to work prior to commit aaec5a95d59615 ("pipe_read: don't wake up the writer if the pipe is still full"). p9_read_work() does p9_fd_read() -> ... -> anon_pipe_read() which (before the commit above) triggered the unnecessary wakeup. This wakeup calls p9_pollwake() which kicks p9_poll_workfn() -> p9_poll_mux(), p9_poll_mux() will notice EPOLLIN and schedule_work(&m->rq). This no longer happens after the optimization above, change p9_fd_request() to use p9_poll_mux() instead of only checking for EPOLLOUT.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected aaec5a95d59615523db03dd53c2052f0a87beea7 - < 242531004d7de8c159f9bfadebe33fe8060b1046affected aaec5a95d59615523db03dd53c2052f0a87beea7 - < e8fe3f07a357c39d429e02ca34f740692d88967a |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.14unaffected 0 - < 6.14unaffected 6.17.8 - <= 6.17.*unaffected 6.18 - <= * |
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