# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40108"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-09T04:35:58.587Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:42:40.261Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40108"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40108.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40108"
title: "serial: qcom-geni: Fix blocked task"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: qcom-geni: Fix blocked task\n\nRevert commit 1afa70632c39 (\"serial: qcom-geni: Enable PM runtime for\nserial driver\") and its dependent commit 86fa39dd6fb7 (\"serial:\nqcom-geni: Enable Serial on SA8255p Qualcomm platforms\") because the\nfirst one causes regression - hang task on Qualcomm RB1 board (QRB2210)\nand unable to use serial at all during normal boot:\n\n  INFO: task kworker/u16:0:12 blocked for more than 42 seconds.\n        Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-00004-g53e760d89498 #9\n  \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n  task:kworker/u16:0   state:D stack:0     pid:12    tgid:12    ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208060 flags:0x00000010\n  Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn\n  Call trace:\n   __switch_to+0xe8/0x1a0 (T)\n   __schedule+0x290/0x7c0\n   schedule+0x34/0x118\n   rpm_resume+0x14c/0x66c\n   rpm_resume+0x2a4/0x66c\n   rpm_resume+0x2a4/0x66c\n   rpm_resume+0x2a4/0x66c\n   __pm_runtime_resume+0x50/0x9c\n   __driver_probe_device+0x58/0x120\n   driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x154\n   __driver_attach_async_helper+0x4c/0xc0\n   async_run_entry_fn+0x34/0xe0\n   process_one_work+0x148/0x290\n   worker_thread+0x2c4/0x3e0\n   kthread+0x118/0x1c0\n   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\nThe issue was reported on 12th of August and was ignored by author of\ncommits introducing issue for two weeks.  Only after complaining author\nproduced a fix which did not work, so if original commits cannot be\nreliably fixed for 5 weeks, they obviously are buggy and need to be\ndropped."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1afa70632c390488308d8e94e037df6895a3e1ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e810d81769e16637bcd845ba37fbc1eba5d4bd2"},{"version":"1afa70632c390488308d8e94e037df6895a3e1ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a699213d4e6ef4286348c6439837990f121e0c03"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"},{"version":"6.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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