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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-46938" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:40:26.850Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:44:48.604Z" 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-2021-46938" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46938.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46938" title: "dm rq: fix double free of blk_mq_tag_set in dev remove after table load fails" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm rq: fix double free of blk_mq_tag_set in dev remove after table load fails\n\nWhen loading a device-mapper table for a request-based mapped device,\nand the allocation/initialization of the blk_mq_tag_set for the device\nfails, a following device remove will cause a double free.\n\nE.g. (dmesg):\n device-mapper: core: Cannot initialize queue for request-based dm-mq mapped device\n device-mapper: ioctl: unable to set up device queue for new table.\n Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space\n Failing address: 0305e098835de000 TEID: 0305e098835de803\n Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.\n AS:000000025efe0007 R3:0000000000000024\n Oops: 0038 ilc:3 [#1] SMP\n Modules linked in: ... lots of modules ...\n Supported: Yes, External\n CPU: 0 PID: 7348 Comm: multipathd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W X 5.3.18-53-default #1 SLE15-SP3\n Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 7I2 (LPAR)\n Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 000000025e368eca (kfree+0x42/0x330)\n R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3\n Krnl GPRS: 000000000000004a 000000025efe5230 c1773200d779968d 0000000000000000\n 000000025e520270 000000025e8d1b40 0000000000000003 00000007aae10000\n 000000025e5202a2 0000000000000001 c1773200d779968d 0305e098835de640\n 00000007a8170000 000003ff80138650 000000025e5202a2 000003e00396faa8\n Krnl Code: 000000025e368eb8: c4180041e100 lgrl %r1,25eba50b8\n 000000025e368ebe: ecba06b93a55 risbg %r11,%r10,6,185,58\n #000000025e368ec4: e3b010000008 ag %r11,0(%r1)\n \u003e000000025e368eca: e310b0080004 lg %r1,8(%r11)\n 000000025e368ed0: a7110001 tmll %r1,1\n 000000025e368ed4: a7740129 brc 7,25e369126\n 000000025e368ed8: e320b0080004 lg %r2,8(%r11)\n 000000025e368ede: b904001b lgr %r1,%r11\n Call Trace:\n [\u003c000000025e368eca\u003e] kfree+0x42/0x330\n [\u003c000000025e5202a2\u003e] blk_mq_free_tag_set+0x72/0xb8\n [\u003c000003ff801316a8\u003e] dm_mq_cleanup_mapped_device+0x38/0x50 [dm_mod]\n [\u003c000003ff80120082\u003e] free_dev+0x52/0xd0 [dm_mod]\n [\u003c000003ff801233f0\u003e] __dm_destroy+0x150/0x1d0 [dm_mod]\n [\u003c000003ff8012bb9a\u003e] dev_remove+0x162/0x1c0 [dm_mod]\n [\u003c000003ff8012a988\u003e] ctl_ioctl+0x198/0x478 [dm_mod]\n [\u003c000003ff8012ac8a\u003e] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x22/0x38 [dm_mod]\n [\u003c000000025e3b11ee\u003e] ksys_ioctl+0xbe/0xe0\n [\u003c000000025e3b127a\u003e] __s390x_sys_ioctl+0x2a/0x40\n [\u003c000000025e8c15ac\u003e] system_call+0xd8/0x2c8\n Last Breaking-Event-Address:\n [\u003c000000025e52029c\u003e] blk_mq_free_tag_set+0x6c/0xb8\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops\n\nWhen allocation/initialization of the blk_mq_tag_set fails in\ndm_mq_init_request_queue(), it is uninitialized/freed, but the pointer\nis not reset to NULL; so when dev_remove() later gets into\ndm_mq_cleanup_mapped_device() it sees the pointer and tries to\nuninitialize and free it again.\n\nFix this by setting the pointer to NULL in dm_mq_init_request_queue()\nerror-handling. Also set it to NULL in dm_mq_cleanup_mapped_device()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ae0185255eaf05bd66f4215c81e99bf01140fd9"},{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b42c0a33dfdd451d9be62dd5de58c39f2750b6e3"},{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"772b9f59657665af3b68d24d12b9d172d31f0dfb"},{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a992a283c0b77d0a7c2c348add0e6a21fb1dab67"},{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cb02dc76f4c0a2749a02b26469512d6984252e9"},{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6086f957416a6e87236c06079fcaba7a3998aeca"},{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d757bf4c69cda3c3ab7f775dfabbf5a80e2f6f9d"},{"version":"1c357a1e86a4227a6b6059f2de118ae47659cebc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e947c8f4a5620df77e43c9c75310dc510250166"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.6"},{"version":"4.9.269","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.233","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.191","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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