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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-46939" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:40:27.471Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:44:49.866Z" 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-2021-46939" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46939.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46939" title: "tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block\n\nIt was reported that a fix to the ring buffer recursion detection would\ncause a hung machine when performing suspend / resume testing. The\nfollowing backtrace was extracted from debugging that case:\n\nCall Trace:\n trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0\n __rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460\n ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0\n trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x10/0x50\n __trace_graph_return+0x1f/0x80\n trace_graph_return+0xb7/0xf0\n ? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0\n ftrace_return_to_handler+0x8b/0xf0\n ? pv_hash+0xa0/0xa0\n return_to_handler+0x15/0x30\n ? ftrace_graph_caller+0xa0/0xa0\n ? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0\n ? __rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460\n ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0\n ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x3c/0x120\n ? trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x6b/0xc0\n ? trace_event_raw_event_device_pm_callback_start+0x125/0x2d0\n ? dpm_run_callback+0x3b/0xc0\n ? pm_ops_is_empty+0x50/0x50\n ? platform_get_irq_byname_optional+0x90/0x90\n ? trace_device_pm_callback_start+0x82/0xd0\n ? dpm_run_callback+0x49/0xc0\n\nWith the following RIP:\n\nRIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x69/0x200\n\nSince the fix to the recursion detection would allow a single recursion to\nhappen while tracing, this lead to the trace_clock_global() taking a spin\nlock and then trying to take it again:\n\nring_buffer_lock_reserve() {\n trace_clock_global() {\n arch_spin_lock() {\n queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {\n /* lock taken */\n (something else gets traced by function graph tracer)\n ring_buffer_lock_reserve() {\n trace_clock_global() {\n arch_spin_lock() {\n queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {\n /* DEAD LOCK! */\n\nTracing should *never* block, as it can lead to strange lockups like the\nabove.\n\nRestructure the trace_clock_global() code to instead of simply taking a\nlock to update the recorded \"prev_time\" simply use it, as two events\nhappening on two different CPUs that calls this at the same time, really\ndoesn't matter which one goes first. Use a trylock to grab the lock for\nupdating the prev_time, and if it fails, simply try again the next time.\nIf it failed to be taken, that means something else is already updating\nit.\n\n\nBugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212761" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91ca6f6a91f679c8645d7f3307e03ce86ad518c4"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"859b47a43f5a0e5b9a92b621dc6ceaad39fb5c8b"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fca00920327be96f3318224f502e4d5460f9545"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d43d56dbf452ccecc1ec735cd4b6840118005d7c"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c64da3294a7d59a4bf6874c664c13be892f15f44"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a33614d52e97fc8077eb0b292189ca7d964cc534"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e2418576228eeb12e7ba82edb8f9500623942ff"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a1bd74b8186d7938bf004f5603f25b84785f63e"},{"version":"14131f2f98ac350ee9e73faed916d2238a8b6a0d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aafe104aa9096827a429bc1358f8260ee565b7cc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"4.4.269","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"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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