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CVE-2025-40305 (GCVE-0-2025-40305)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-08 00:46 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:46
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Title
9p/trans_fd: p9_fd_request: kick rx thread if EPOLLIN
Summary
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.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: aaec5a95d59615523db03dd53c2052f0a87beea7 , < 242531004d7de8c159f9bfadebe33fe8060b1046 (git)
Affected: aaec5a95d59615523db03dd53c2052f0a87beea7 , < e8fe3f07a357c39d429e02ca34f740692d88967a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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