vulnerability
Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-40125: Important priority package update for kernel (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Nov 12, 2025 | Dec 9, 2025 | Dec 9, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 12, 2025
Added
Dec 9, 2025
Modified
Dec 9, 2025
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+0x13f/0x160
Call Trace:
remove_files.isra.1+0x38/0xb0
sysfs_remove_group+0x4d/0x100
sysfs_remove_groups+0x31/0x60
__kobject_del+0x23/0xf0
kobject_del+0x17/0x40
blk_mq_unregister_hctx+0x5d/0x80
blk_mq_sysfs_unregister_hctxs+0x94/0xd0
blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x124/0x760
nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk]
nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x92/0x120 [null_blk]
kobjct_del() was called unconditionally even if sysfs creation failed.
Fix it by checkig the kobject creation statusbefore deleting it.
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+0x13f/0x160
Call Trace:
remove_files.isra.1+0x38/0xb0
sysfs_remove_group+0x4d/0x100
sysfs_remove_groups+0x31/0x60
__kobject_del+0x23/0xf0
kobject_del+0x17/0x40
blk_mq_unregister_hctx+0x5d/0x80
blk_mq_sysfs_unregister_hctxs+0x94/0xd0
blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x124/0x760
nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk]
nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x92/0x120 [null_blk]
kobjct_del() was called unconditionally even if sysfs creation failed.
Fix it by checkig the kobject creation statusbefore deleting it.
Solutions
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