CVE-2025-40305

9p/trans_fd: p9_fd_request: kick rx thread if EPOLLIN

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 8, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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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.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • aaec5a95d59615523db03dd53c2052f0a87beea7 to before 242531004d7de8c159f9bfadebe33fe8060b1046Affected
  • aaec5a95d59615523db03dd53c2052f0a87beea7 to before e8fe3f07a357c39d429e02ca34f740692d88967aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.17.8 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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