CVE-2025-40005

Name	CVE-2025-40005
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy driver support indirect read and indirect write operation with assumption no force device removal(unbind) operation. However force device removal(removal) is still available to root superuser. Unbinding driver during operation causes kernel crash. This changes ensure driver able to handle such operation for indirect read and indirect write by implementing refcount to track attached devices to the controller and gracefully wait and until attached devices remove operation completed before proceed with removal operation.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.244-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.153-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.43-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.48-1	vulnerable
	forky	6.16.12-2	fixed
	sid	6.17.7-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	6.16.10-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/7446284023e8ef694fb392348185349c773eefb3 (6.17-rc5)