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:
<TASK>
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]
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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

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Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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: <TASK> 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]
Title net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-29T13:19:29.546Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T07:20:57.152Z

Link: CVE-2025-40027

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-28T10:15:42.313

Modified: 2025-10-29T14:15:52.910

Link: CVE-2025-40027

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-10-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-40027 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-10-29T10:58:45Z