CVE-2025-40356 spi: rockchip-sfc: Fix DMA-API usage
A Linux kernel SPI driver bug causes DMA API warnings and potential instability, requiring a patch to fix improper memory mapping.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-40356?
CVE-2025-40356 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 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:
spi: rockchip-sfc: Fix DMA-API usage
Use DMA-API dma_map_single() call for getting the DMA address of the transfer buffer instead of hacking with virt_to_phys().
This fixes the following DMA-API debug warning: ------------[ cut here ]------------ DMA-API: rockchip-sfc fe300000.spi: device driver tries to sync DMA memory it has not allocated [device address=0x000000000cf70000] [size=288 bytes] WARNING: kernel/dma/debug.c:1106 at check_sync+0x1d8/0x690, CPU#2: systemd-udevd/151 Modules linked in: ... Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-M1 (DT) pstate: 604000c9 (nZCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : check_sync+0x1d8/0x690 lr : check_sync+0x1d8/0x690 .. Call trace: check_sync+0x1d8/0x690 (P) debug_dma_sync_single_for_cpu+0x84/0x8c __dma_sync_single_for_cpu+0x88/0x234 rockchip_sfc_exec_mem_op+0x4a0/0x798 [spi_rockchip_sfc] spi_mem_exec_op+0x408/0x498 spi_nor_read_data+0x170/0x184 spi_nor_read_sfdp+0x74/0xe4 spi_nor_parse_sfdp+0x120/0x11f0 spi_nor_sfdp_init_params_deprecated+0x3c/0x8c spi_nor_scan+0x690/0xf88 spi_nor_probe+0xe4/0x304 spi_mem_probe+0x6c/0xa8 spi_probe+0x94/0xd4 really_probe+0xbc/0x298 ...
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40356?
How do I fix CVE-2025-40356?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-40356 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40356 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-40356, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40356, GHSA-99cm-3rm5-ghgx, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-40356, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-40356, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40356.