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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2025-40325 json

md/raid10: wait barrier before returning discard request with REQ_NOWAIT

published 2025-04-18 18 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also EUVD-2025-11811

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md/raid10: wait barrier before returning discard request with REQ_NOWAIT

raid10_handle_discard should wait barrier before returning a discard bio which has REQ_NOWAIT. And there is no need to print warning calltrace if a discard bio has REQ_NOWAIT flag. Quality engineer usually checks dmesg and reports error if dmesg has warning/error calltrace.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.16, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.64, 6.14.2, 6.15
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.69-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.16.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40325

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-110.110
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.57
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.56
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1051.51
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.60
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1037.40
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.56

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40325

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1
  • kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1
  • kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1
  • kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP6, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 +3 more 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.23.53.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02000-1SUSE-SU-2025:01972-1SUSE-SU-2025:20413-1SUSE-SU-2025:01967-1SUSE-SU-2025:01965-1SUSE-SU-2025:01964-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-40325 updated cvss 3.3

kernel: md/raid10: wait barrier before returning discard request with REQ_NOWAIT

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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References

Sources

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