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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-46927"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T09:43:56.743Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:44:35.485Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
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-2021-46927"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46927.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46927"
title: "nitro_enclaves: Use get_user_pages_unlocked() call to handle mmap assert"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnitro_enclaves: Use get_user_pages_unlocked() call to handle mmap assert\n\nAfter commit 5b78ed24e8ec (\"mm/pagemap: add mmap_assert_locked()\nannotations to find_vma*()\"), the call to get_user_pages() will trigger\nthe mmap assert.\n\nstatic inline void mmap_assert_locked(struct mm_struct *mm)\n{\n\tlockdep_assert_held(&mm-\u003emmap_lock);\n\tVM_BUG_ON_MM(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm-\u003emmap_lock), mm);\n}\n\n[   62.521410] kernel BUG at include/linux/mmap_lock.h:156!\n...........................................................\n[   62.538938] RIP: 0010:find_vma+0x32/0x80\n...........................................................\n[   62.605889] Call Trace:\n[   62.608502]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[   62.610956]  ? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80\n[   62.614106]  find_extend_vma+0x19/0x80\n[   62.617195]  __get_user_pages+0x9b/0x6a0\n[   62.620356]  __gup_longterm_locked+0x42d/0x450\n[   62.623721]  ? finish_wait+0x41/0x80\n[   62.626748]  ? __kmalloc+0x178/0x2f0\n[   62.629768]  ne_set_user_memory_region_ioctl.isra.0+0x225/0x6a0 [nitro_enclaves]\n[   62.635776]  ne_enclave_ioctl+0x1cf/0x6d7 [nitro_enclaves]\n[   62.639541]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x82/0xb0\n[   62.642620]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90\n[   62.645642]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nUse get_user_pages_unlocked() when setting the enclave memory regions.\nThat's a similar pattern as mmap_read_lock() used together with\nget_user_pages()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5b78ed24e8ec48602c1d6f5a188e58d000c81e2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90d2beed5e753805c5eab656b8d48257638fe543"},{"version":"5b78ed24e8ec48602c1d6f5a188e58d000c81e2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a0152b219523227c2a62a0a122cf99608287176"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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