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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47089"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-04T18:10:27.495Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:47:49.944Z"
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-2021-47089"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47089.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47089"
title: "kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects\n\nHulk robot reported a kmemleak problem:\n\n    unreferenced object 0xffff93d1d8cc02e8 (size 248):\n      comm \"cat\", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)\n      hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n        00 40 85 19 d4 93 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00  .@..............\n        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n      backtrace:\n         seq_open+0x2a/0x80\n         full_proxy_open+0x167/0x1e0\n         do_dentry_open+0x1e1/0x3a0\n         path_openat+0x961/0xa20\n         do_filp_open+0xae/0x120\n         do_sys_openat2+0x216/0x2f0\n         do_sys_open+0x57/0x80\n         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40\n         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n    unreferenced object 0xffff93d419854000 (size 4096):\n      comm \"cat\", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)\n      hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n        6b 66 65 6e 63 65 2d 23 32 35 30 3a 20 30 78 30  kfence-#250: 0x0\n        30 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 35 34 62 64 61 31 32 2d  0000000754bda12-\n      backtrace:\n         seq_read_iter+0x313/0x440\n         seq_read+0x14b/0x1a0\n         full_proxy_read+0x56/0x80\n         vfs_read+0xa5/0x1b0\n         ksys_read+0xa0/0xf0\n         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40\n         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\n\nI find that we can easily reproduce this problem with the following\ncommands:\n\n\tcat /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects\n\techo scan \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n\tcat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n\nThe leaked memory is allocated in the stack below:\n\n    do_syscall_64\n      do_sys_open\n        do_dentry_open\n          full_proxy_open\n            seq_open            ---\u003e alloc seq_file\n      vfs_read\n        full_proxy_read\n          seq_read\n            seq_read_iter\n              traverse          ---\u003e alloc seq_buf\n\nAnd it should have been released in the following process:\n\n    do_syscall_64\n      syscall_exit_to_user_mode\n        exit_to_user_mode_prepare\n          task_work_run\n            ____fput\n              __fput\n                full_proxy_release  ---\u003e free here\n\nHowever, the release function corresponding to file_operations is not\nimplemented in kfence.  As a result, a memory leak occurs.  Therefore,\nthe solution to this problem is to implement the corresponding release\nfunction."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0ce20dd840897b12ae70869c69f1ba34d6d16965","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f06c8293d27f6337f907042c602c9c953988c48"},{"version":"0ce20dd840897b12ae70869c69f1ba34d6d16965","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0129ab1f268b6cf88825eae819b9b84aa0a85634"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.12","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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