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FKIE_CVE-2021-47569

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-24 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:17

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fail cancellation for EXITING tasks WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20 at fs/io_uring.c:6269 io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269 CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Workqueue: events io_fallback_req_func RIP: 0010:io_try_cancel_userdata+0x3c5/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:6269 Call Trace: <TASK> io_req_task_link_timeout+0x6b/0x1e0 fs/io_uring.c:6886 io_fallback_req_func+0xf9/0x1ae fs/io_uring.c:1334 process_one_work+0x9b2/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2298 worker_thread+0x658/0x11f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2445 kthread+0x405/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:327 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295 </TASK> We need original task's context to do cancellations, so if it's dying and the callback is executed in a fallback mode, fail the cancellation attempt.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d2a1e68fd9904fdc1b02f2e7d40ca47df7ba39f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/617a89484debcd4e7999796d693cf0b77d2519de	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d2a1e68fd9904fdc1b02f2e7d40ca47df7ba39f	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/617a89484debcd4e7999796d693cf0b77d2519de	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	5.16
linux	linux_kernel	5.16

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CVE-2021-47569 (GCVE-0-2021-47569)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-24 15:12 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:57

Title

io_uring: fail cancellation for EXITING tasks

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:35 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d2a1e68fd9904fdc…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/617a89484debcd4e7…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 89b263f6d56e683ddcf7643140271ef6e36c72b9 , < 3d2a1e68fd9904fdc1b02f2e7d40ca47df7ba39f (git) Affected: 89b263f6d56e683ddcf7643140271ef6e36c72b9 , < 617a89484debcd4e7999796d693cf0b77d2519de (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.6 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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