CVE-2025-40115 scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info()
A use-after-free vulnerability in the mpt3sas kernel driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash during device removal.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-40115?
CVE-2025-40115 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 12 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info()
During mpt3sas_transport_port_remove(), messages were logged with dev_printk() against &mpt3sas_port->port->dev. At this point the SAS transport device may already be partially unregistered or freed, leading to a crash when accessing its struct device.
Using ioc_info(), which logs via the PCI device (ioc->pdev->dev), guaranteed to remain valid until driver removal.
[83428.295776] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6f702f323a33312d: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [83428.295785] CPU: 145 UID: 0 PID: 113296 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.16.0-rc1+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [83428.295792] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE [83428.295795] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7875 Tower/, BIOS 89.1.67 02/23/2024 [83428.295799] RIP: 0010:__dev_printk+0x1f/0x70 [83428.295805] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 d1 48 85 f6 74 52 4c 8b 46 50 4d 85 c0 74 1f 48 8b 46 68 48 85 c0 74 22 <48> 8b 08 0f b6 7f 01 48 c7 c2 db e8 42 ad 83 ef 30 e9 7b f8 ff ff [83428.295813] RSP: 0018:ff85aeafc3137bb0 EFLAGS: 00010206 [83428.295817] RAX: 6f702f323a33312d RBX: ff4290ee81292860 RCX: 5000cca25103be32 [83428.295820] RDX: ff85aeafc3137bb8 RSI: ff4290eeb1966c00 RDI: ffffffffc1560845 [83428.295823] RBP: ff85aeafc3137c18 R08: 74726f702f303a33 R09: ff85aeafc3137bb8 [83428.295826] R10: ff85aeafc3137b18 R11: ff4290f5bd60fe68 R12: ff4290ee81290000 [83428.295830] R13: ff4290ee6e345de0 R14: ff4290ee81290000 R15: ff4290ee6e345e30 [83428.295833] FS: 00007fd9472a6740(0000) GS:ff4290f5ce96b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [83428.295837] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [83428.295840] CR2: 00007f242b4db238 CR3: 00000002372b8006 CR4: 0000000000771ef0 [83428.295844] PKRU: 55555554 [83428.295846] Call Trace: [83428.295848] <TASK> [83428.295850] _dev_printk+0x5c/0x80 [83428.295857] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [83428.295863] mpt3sas_transport_port_remove+0x1c7/0x420 [mpt3sas] [83428.295882] _scsih_remove_device+0x21b/0x280 [mpt3sas] [83428.295894] ? _scsih_expander_node_remove+0x108/0x140 [mpt3sas] [83428.295906] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [83428.295910] mpt3sas_device_remove_by_sas_address.part.0+0x8f/0x110 [mpt3sas] [83428.295921] _scsih_expander_node_remove+0x129/0x140 [mpt3sas] [83428.295933] _scsih_expander_node_remove+0x6a/0x140 [mpt3sas] [83428.295944] scsih_remove+0x3f0/0x4a0 [mpt3sas] [83428.295957] pci_device_remove+0x3b/0xb0 [83428.295962] device_release_driver_internal+0x193/0x200 [83428.295968] driver_detach+0x44/0x90 [83428.295971] bus_remove_driver+0x69/0xf0 [83428.295975] pci_unregister_driver+0x2a/0xb0 [83428.295979] _mpt3sas_exit+0x1f/0x300 [mpt3sas] [83428.295991] __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x174/0x310 [83428.295997] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [83428.296000] ? __x64_sys_getdents64+0x9a/0x110 [83428.296005] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [83428.296009] ? syscall_trace_enter+0xf6/0x1b0 [83428.296014] do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0 [83428.296019] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [83428.296023] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40115?
How do I fix CVE-2025-40115?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2025-40115 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40115 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-40115, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40115, GHSA-j55m-w6ff-cv8j, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-40115, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-40115, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40115 and 1 more.