Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p: fix double req put...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled
Syzkaller reports a KASAN issue as below:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xfbd59c0000000021: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000108-0xdead00000000010f]
CPU: 0 PID: 5083 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.1.134-syzkaller-00037-g855bd1d7d838 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__list_del include/linux/list.h:114 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:137 [inline]
RIP: 0010:list_del include/linux/list.h:148 [inline]
RIP: 0010:p9_fd_cancelled+0xe9/0x200 net/9p/trans_fd.c:734
Call Trace:
p9_client_flush+0x351/0x440 net/9p/client.c:614
p9_client_rpc+0xb6b/0xc70 net/9p/client.c:734
p9_client_version net/9p/client.c:920 [inline]
p9_client_create+0xb51/0x1240 net/9p/client.c:1027
v9fs_session_init+0x1f0/0x18f0 fs/9p/v9fs.c:408
v9fs_mount+0xba/0xcb0 fs/9p/vfs_super.c:126
legacy_get_tree+0x108/0x220 fs/fs_context.c:632
vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 fs/super.c:1573
do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3056 [inline]
path_mount+0x6a6/0x1e90 fs/namespace.c:3386
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3399 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3607 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3584 [inline]
__x64_sys_mount+0x283/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3584
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
This happens because of a race condition between:
The 9p client sending an invalid flush request and later cleaning it up;
The 9p client in p9_read_work() canceled all pending requests.
Thread 1 Thread 2...
p9_client_create()
...
p9_fd_create()
...
p9_conn_create()
...
// start Thread 2
INIT_WORK(&m->rq, p9_read_work);
p9_read_work()
...
p9_client_rpc()
...
...
p9_conn_cancel()
...
spin_lock(&m->req_lock);
...
p9_fd_cancelled()
...
...
spin_unlock(&m->req_lock);
// status rewrite
p9_client_cb(m->client, req, REQ_STATUS_ERROR)
// first remove
list_del(&req->req_list);
...spin_lock(&m->req_lock)
...
// second remove
list_del(&req->req_list);
spin_unlock(&m->req_lock)
...
Commit 74d6a5d56629 ("9p/trans_fd: Fix concurrency del of req_list in
p9_fd_cancelled/p9_read_work") fixes a concurrency issue in the 9p filesystem
client where the req_list could be deleted simultaneously by both
p9_read_work and p9_fd_cancelled functions, but for the case where req->status
equals REQ_STATUS_RCVD.
Update the check for req->status in p9_fd_cancelled to skip processing not
just received requests, but anything that is not SENT, as whatever
changed the state from SENT also removed the request from its list.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
[updated the check from status == RECV || status == ERROR to status != SENT]
Impact
CVE-2025-40027 has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High). The vector is requires local access, low privileges required, and no user interaction. A CVSS score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether this affects your application depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable in your environment. No fixed version is listed yet, so configuration controls and monitoring matter more in the interim.
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- What is CVE-2025-40027? CVE-2025-40027 is a high-severity security vulnerability. No fixed version is listed yet.
- How severe is CVE-2025-40027? CVE-2025-40027 has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High). This score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether it represents real risk in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-40027? No fixed version is listed for CVE-2025-40027 yet. Monitor the advisory for updates and apply mitigations in the interim.
- Is CVE-2025-40027 exploitable, and should I be worried? Whether CVE-2025-40027 is exploitable in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable. A CVSS score is a worst-case rating; it does not account for your specific deployment, configuration, or usage patterns. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to show which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so you can focus on the ones that represent real risk. Get a demo
- What actually determines whether CVE-2025-40027 is exploitable, and how bad it is? Exploitability and impact are not fixed properties of a CVE. They depend on runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A high CVSS score on a dependency that never runs is not the same as real risk. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter.