# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40219"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T14:50:42.996Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:09:04.855Z"
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-2025-40219"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40219.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40219"
title: "PCI/IOV: Fix race between SR-IOV enable/disable and hotplug"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI/IOV: Fix race between SR-IOV enable/disable and hotplug\n\nCommit 05703271c3cd (\"PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when\nenabling/disabling SR-IOV\") tried to fix a race between the VF removal\ninside sriov_del_vfs() and concurrent hot unplug by taking the PCI\nrescan/remove lock in sriov_del_vfs(). Similarly the PCI rescan/remove lock\nwas also taken in sriov_add_vfs() to protect addition of VFs.\n\nThis approach however causes deadlock on trying to remove PFs with SR-IOV\nenabled because PFs disable SR-IOV during removal and this removal happens\nunder the PCI rescan/remove lock. So the original fix had to be reverted.\n\nInstead of taking the PCI rescan/remove lock in sriov_add_vfs() and\nsriov_del_vfs(), fix the race that occurs with SR-IOV enable and disable vs\nhotplug higher up in the callchain by taking the lock in\nsriov_numvfs_store() before calling into the driver's sriov_configure()\ncallback."
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