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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40327"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T04:09:43.522Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:02:10.552Z"
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-2025-40327"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40327.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40327"
title: "perf/core: Fix system hang caused by cpu-clock usage"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/core: Fix system hang caused by cpu-clock usage\n\ncpu-clock usage by the async-profiler tool can trigger a system hang,\nwhich got bisected back to the following commit by Octavia Togami:\n\n  18dbcbfabfff (\"perf: Fix the POLL_HUP delivery breakage\") causes this issue\n\nThe root cause of the hang is that cpu-clock is a special type of SW\nevent which relies on hrtimers. The __perf_event_overflow() callback\nis invoked from the hrtimer handler for cpu-clock events, and\n__perf_event_overflow() tries to call cpu_clock_event_stop()\nto stop the event, which calls htimer_cancel() to cancel the hrtimer.\n\nBut that's a recursion into the hrtimer code from a hrtimer handler,\nwhich (unsurprisingly) deadlocks.\n\nTo fix this bug, use hrtimer_try_to_cancel() instead, and set\nthe PERF_HES_STOPPED flag, which causes perf_swevent_hrtimer()\nto stop the event once it sees the PERF_HES_STOPPED flag.\n\n[ mingo: Fixed the comments and improved the changelog. ]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"18dbcbfabfffc4a5d3ea10290c5ad27f22b0d240","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b8c512811644cf2f5eaf6f44e928683c54127f0"},{"version":"18dbcbfabfffc4a5d3ea10290c5ad27f22b0d240","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb3182ef0405ff2f6668fd3e5ff9883f60ce8801"},{"version":"b2de0c9ce8e542b5cb4cd3944620d9dd1ea1f0ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.16.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"},{"version":"6.17.8","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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