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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47256" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:19:50.777Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:50:58.894Z" 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-2021-47256" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47256.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47256" title: "mm/memory-failure: make sure wait for page writeback in memory_failure" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/memory-failure: make sure wait for page writeback in memory_failure\n\nOur syzkaller trigger the \"BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode-\u003ei_wb_list))\" in\nclear_inode:\n\n kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:519!\n Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP\n Modules linked in:\n Process syz-executor.0 (pid: 249, stack limit = 0x00000000a12409d7)\n CPU: 1 PID: 249 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.95\n Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO)\n pc : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8\n lr : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8\n Call trace:\n clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8\n ext4_clear_inode+0x38/0xe8\n ext4_free_inode+0x130/0xc68\n ext4_evict_inode+0xb20/0xcb8\n evict+0x1a8/0x3c0\n iput+0x344/0x460\n do_unlinkat+0x260/0x410\n __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x6c/0xc0\n el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x3b0\n el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160\n el0_svc+0x10/0x218\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nA crash dump of this problem show that someone called __munlock_pagevec\nto clear page LRU without lock_page: do_mmap -\u003e mmap_region -\u003e do_munmap\n-\u003e munlock_vma_pages_range -\u003e __munlock_pagevec.\n\nAs a result memory_failure will call identify_page_state without\nwait_on_page_writeback. And after truncate_error_page clear the mapping\nof this page. end_page_writeback won't call sb_clear_inode_writeback to\nclear inode-\u003ei_wb_list. That will trigger BUG_ON in clear_inode!\n\nFix it by checking PageWriteback too to help determine should we skip\nwait_on_page_writeback." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d05267fd27a5c4f54e06daefa3035995d765ca0c"},{"version":"0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d210d547adc2218ef8b5bcf23518c5f2f1fd872"},{"version":"0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"566345aaabac853aa866f53a219c4b02a6beb527"},{"version":"0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e379da727a7a031be9b877cde7b9c34a0fb8306"},{"version":"0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28788dc5c70597395b6b451dae4549bbaa8e2c56"},{"version":"0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8675d291ac007e1c636870db880f837a9ea112a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.16"},{"version":"4.14.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.196","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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"}] ## 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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