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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47189" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-10T18:56:28.194Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:46:35.936Z" 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-2021-47189" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47189.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47189" title: "btrfs: fix memory ordering between normal and ordered work functions" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix memory ordering between normal and ordered work functions\n\nOrdered work functions aren't guaranteed to be handled by the same thread\nwhich executed the normal work functions. The only way execution between\nnormal/ordered functions is synchronized is via the WORK_DONE_BIT,\nunfortunately the used bitops don't guarantee any ordering whatsoever.\n\nThis manifested as seemingly inexplicable crashes on ARM64, where\nasync_chunk::inode is seen as non-null in async_cow_submit which causes\nsubmit_compressed_extents to be called and crash occurs because\nasync_chunk::inode suddenly became NULL. The call trace was similar to:\n\n pc : submit_compressed_extents+0x38/0x3d0\n lr : async_cow_submit+0x50/0xd0\n sp : ffff800015d4bc20\n\n \u003cregisters omitted for brevity\u003e\n\n Call trace:\n submit_compressed_extents+0x38/0x3d0\n async_cow_submit+0x50/0xd0\n run_ordered_work+0xc8/0x280\n btrfs_work_helper+0x98/0x250\n process_one_work+0x1f0/0x4ac\n worker_thread+0x188/0x504\n kthread+0x110/0x114\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18\n\nFix this by adding respective barrier calls which ensure that all\naccesses preceding setting of WORK_DONE_BIT are strictly ordered before\nsetting the flag. At the same time add a read barrier after reading of\nWORK_DONE_BIT in run_ordered_work which ensures all subsequent loads\nwould be strictly ordered after reading the bit. This in turn ensures\nare all accesses before WORK_DONE_BIT are going to be strictly ordered\nbefore any access that can occur in ordered_func." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bd660a20fea3ec60a49709ef5360f145ec0fe779"},{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"637d652d351fd4f263ef302dc52f3971d314e500"},{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"804a9d239ae9cbe88e861a7cd62319cc6ec7b136"},{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed058d735a70f4b063323f1a7bb33cda0f987513"},{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"670f6b3867c8f0f11e5097f353b164cecfec6179"},{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6adbc07ebcaf8bead08b21687d49e0fc94400987"},{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47e6f9f69153247109042010f3a77579e9dc61ff"},{"version":"08a9ff3264181986d1d692a4e6fce3669700c9f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45da9c1767ac31857df572f0a909fbe88fd5a7e9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"4.4.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.291","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.256","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.218","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.82","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","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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