CVE-2025-40125 — Incorrect Check of Function Return Value in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV5.5OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 87.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 12
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx
In __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() the return value of
blk_mq_sysfs_register_hctxs() is not checked. If sysfs creation for hctx
fails, later changing the number of hw_queues or removing disk will
trigger the following warning:
kernfs: can not remove 'nr_tags', no directory
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 637 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1707 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x1…
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux477e19dedc9d3e1f4443a1d4ae00572a988120ea — a8c53553f1833cc2d14175d2d72cf37193a01898+8