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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-46942"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-27T18:40:29.280Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:44:53.336Z"
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-2021-46942"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46942.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46942"
title: "io_uring: fix shared sqpoll cancellation hangs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: fix shared sqpoll cancellation hangs\n\n[  736.982891] INFO: task iou-sqp-4294:4295 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n[  736.982897] Call Trace:\n[  736.982901]  schedule+0x68/0xe0\n[  736.982903]  io_uring_cancel_sqpoll+0xdb/0x110\n[  736.982908]  io_sqpoll_cancel_cb+0x24/0x30\n[  736.982911]  io_run_task_work_head+0x28/0x50\n[  736.982913]  io_sq_thread+0x4e3/0x720\n\nWe call io_uring_cancel_sqpoll() one by one for each ctx either in\nsq_thread() itself or via task works, and it's intended to cancel all\nrequests of a specified context. However the function uses per-task\ncounters to track the number of inflight requests, so it counts more\nrequests than available via currect io_uring ctx and goes to sleep for\nthem to appear (e.g. from IRQ), that will never happen.\n\nCancel a bit more than before, i.e. all ctxs that share sqpoll\nand continue to use shared counters. Don't forget that we should not\nremove ctx from the list before running that task_work sqpoll-cancel,\notherwise the function wouldn't be able to find the context and will\nhang."
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