{"id":73247,"date":"2025-11-09T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40108-serial-qcom-geni-fix-blocked-task\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:15:35","slug":"cve-2025-40108-serial-qcom-geni-fix-blocked-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40108-serial-qcom-geni-fix-blocked-task\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40108 &#8211; serial: qcom-geni: Fix blocked task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40108<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Nov. 9, 2025, 5:15 a.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>serial: qcom-geni: Fix blocked task<\/p>\n<p>Revert commit 1afa70632c39 (&#8220;serial: qcom-geni: Enable PM runtime for<br \/>\nserial driver&#8221;) and its dependent commit 86fa39dd6fb7 (&#8220;serial:<br \/>\nqcom-geni: Enable Serial on SA8255p Qualcomm platforms&#8221;) because the<br \/>\nfirst one causes regression &#8211; hang task on Qualcomm RB1 board (QRB2210)<br \/>\nand unable to use serial at all during normal boot:<\/p>\n<p>  INFO: task kworker\/u16:0:12 blocked for more than 42 seconds.<br \/>\n        Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-00004-g53e760d89498 #9<br \/>\n  &#8220;echo 0 &gt; \/proc\/sys\/kernel\/hung_task_timeout_secs&#8221; disables this message.<br \/>\n  task:kworker\/u16:0   state:D stack:0     pid:12    tgid:12    ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00000010<br \/>\n  Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn<br \/>\n  Call trace:<br \/>\n   __switch_to+0xe8\/0x1a0 (T)<br \/>\n   __schedule+0x290\/0x7c0<br \/>\n   schedule+0x34\/0x118<br \/>\n   rpm_resume+0x14c\/0x66c<br \/>\n   rpm_resume+0x2a4\/0x66c<br \/>\n   rpm_resume+0x2a4\/0x66c<br \/>\n   rpm_resume+0x2a4\/0x66c<br \/>\n   __pm_runtime_resume+0x50\/0x9c<br \/>\n   __driver_probe_device+0x58\/0x120<br \/>\n   driver_probe_device+0x3c\/0x154<br \/>\n   __driver_attach_async_helper+0x4c\/0xc0<br \/>\n   async_run_entry_fn+0x34\/0xe0<br \/>\n   process_one_work+0x148\/0x290<br \/>\n   worker_thread+0x2c4\/0x3e0<br \/>\n   kthread+0x118\/0x1c0<br \/>\n   ret_from_fork+0x10\/0x20<\/p>\n<p>The issue was reported on 12th of August and was ignored by author of<br \/>\ncommits introducing issue for two weeks.  Only after complaining author<br \/>\nproduced a fix which did not work, so if original commits cannot be<br \/>\nreliably fixed for 5 weeks, they obviously are buggy and need to be<br \/>\ndropped.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40108 Published : Nov. 9, 2025, 5:15 a.m. | 15\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: qcom-geni: Fix blocked task Revert commit 1afa70632c39 (&#8220;serial: qcom-geni: Enable PM runtime for serial driver&#8221;) and its dependent commit 86fa39dd6fb7 (&#8220;serial: qcom-geni: Enable Serial on SA8255p Qualcomm platforms&#8221;) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}