# 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-2025-40261"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:21.345Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:42.080Z"
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-2025-40261"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40261.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40261"
title: "nvme: nvme-fc: Ensure -\u003eioerr_work is cancelled in nvme_fc_delete_ctrl()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme: nvme-fc: Ensure -\u003eioerr_work is cancelled in nvme_fc_delete_ctrl()\n\nnvme_fc_delete_assocation() waits for pending I/O to complete before\nreturning, and an error can cause -\u003eioerr_work to be queued after\ncancel_work_sync() had been called.  Move the call to cancel_work_sync() to\nbe after nvme_fc_delete_association() to ensure -\u003eioerr_work is not running\nwhen the nvme_fc_ctrl object is freed.  Otherwise the following can occur:\n\n[ 1135.911754] list_del corruption, ff2d24c8093f31f8-\u003enext is NULL\n[ 1135.917705] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 1135.922336] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:52!\n[ 1135.926784] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[ 1135.931851] CPU: 48 UID: 0 PID: 726 Comm: kworker/u449:23 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.12.0 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[ 1135.943490] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R660/0HGTK9, BIOS 2.5.4 01/16/2025\n[ 1135.950969] Workqueue:  0x0 (nvme-wq)\n[ 1135.954673] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold+0xf/0x6f\n[ 1135.961041] Code: c7 c7 98 68 72 94 e8 26 45 fe ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c7 70 68 72 94 e8 18 45 fe ff 0f 0b 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 80 69 72 94 e8 07 45 fe ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b 48 89 d1 48 c7 c7 a0 6a 72 94 48 89 c2 e8 f3 44 fe ff 0f 0b\n[ 1135.979788] RSP: 0018:ff579b19482d3e50 EFLAGS: 00010046\n[ 1135.985015] RAX: 0000000000000033 RBX: ff2d24c8093f31f0 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[ 1135.992148] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ff2d24d6bfa1d0c0 RDI: ff2d24d6bfa1d0c0\n[ 1135.999278] RBP: ff2d24c8093f31f8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff951e2b08\n[ 1136.006413] R10: ffffffff95122ac8 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ff2d24c78697c100\n[ 1136.013546] R13: fffffffffffffff8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ff2d24c78697c0c0\n[ 1136.020677] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff2d24d6bfa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 1136.028765] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 1136.034510] CR2: 00007fd207f90b80 CR3: 000000163ea22003 CR4: 0000000000f73ef0\n[ 1136.041641] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n[ 1136.048776] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n[ 1136.055910] PKRU: 55555554\n[ 1136.058623] Call Trace:\n[ 1136.061074]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 1136.063179]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1b0/0x2f0\n[ 1136.067540]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1b0/0x2f0\n[ 1136.071898]  ? move_linked_works+0x4a/0xa0\n[ 1136.075998]  ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold+0xf/0x6f\n[ 1136.081744]  ? __die_body.cold+0x8/0x12\n[ 1136.085584]  ? die+0x2e/0x50\n[ 1136.088469]  ? do_trap+0xca/0x110\n[ 1136.091789]  ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80\n[ 1136.095543]  ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold+0xf/0x6f\n[ 1136.101289]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x70\n[ 1136.105127]  ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold+0xf/0x6f\n[ 1136.110874]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20\n[ 1136.115059]  ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report.cold+0xf/0x6f\n[ 1136.120806]  move_linked_works+0x4a/0xa0\n[ 1136.124733]  worker_thread+0x216/0x3a0\n[ 1136.128485]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[ 1136.132758]  kthread+0xfa/0x240\n[ 1136.135904]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 1136.139657]  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50\n[ 1136.143236]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 1136.146988]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[ 1136.150915]  \u003c/TASK\u003e"
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