CVE-2025-40305

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

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Published: December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.14aaec5a95d59615523db03dd53c2052f0a87beea7
Vendor states this is fixed in 242531004d7de8c159f9bfadebe33fe8060b1046 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e8fe3f07a357c39d429e02ca34f740692d88967a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)

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