# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47242"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:19:41.665Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:46:53.149Z"
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-2021-47242"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47242.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47242"
title: "mptcp: fix soft lookup in subflow_error_report()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix soft lookup in subflow_error_report()\n\nMaxim reported a soft lookup in subflow_error_report():\n\n watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:0]\n RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath\n RSP: 0018:ffffa859c0003bc0 EFLAGS: 00000202\n RAX: 0000000000000101 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000\n RDX: ffff9195c2772d88 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9195c2772d88\n RBP: ffff9195c2772d00 R08: 00000000000067b0 R09: c6e31da9eb1e44f4\n R10: ffff9195ef379700 R11: ffff9195edb50710 R12: ffff9195c2772d88\n R13: ffff9195f500e3d0 R14: ffff9195ef379700 R15: ffff9195ef379700\n FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff91961f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 000000c000407000 CR3: 0000000002988000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cIRQ\u003e\n _raw_spin_lock_bh\n subflow_error_report\n mptcp_subflow_data_available\n __mptcp_move_skbs_from_subflow\n mptcp_data_ready\n tcp_data_queue\n tcp_rcv_established\n tcp_v4_do_rcv\n tcp_v4_rcv\n ip_protocol_deliver_rcu\n ip_local_deliver_finish\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core\n netif_receive_skb\n rtl8139_poll 8139too\n __napi_poll\n net_rx_action\n __do_softirq\n __irq_exit_rcu\n common_interrupt\n  \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nThe calling function - mptcp_subflow_data_available() - can be invoked\nfrom different contexts:\n- plain ssk socket lock\n- ssk socket lock + mptcp_data_lock\n- ssk socket lock + mptcp_data_lock + msk socket lock.\n\nSince subflow_error_report() tries to acquire the mptcp_data_lock, the\nlatter two call chains will cause soft lookup.\n\nThis change addresses the issue moving the error reporting call to\nouter functions, where the held locks list is known and the we can\nacquire only the needed one."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"15cc10453398c22f78f6c2b897119ecce5e5dd89","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27ef25c72373222aaa5fe7b5cd890ae9cfb89a8d"},{"version":"15cc10453398c22f78f6c2b897119ecce5e5dd89","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"499ada5073361c631f2a3c4a8aed44d53b6f82ec"},{"version":"c8ad65cb5051498b8a58be40499db9e930f0092e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.11.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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