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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47292"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:35:16.724Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:51:40.146Z"
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-2021-47292"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47292.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47292"
title: "io_uring: fix memleak in io_init_wq_offload()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: fix memleak in io_init_wq_offload()\n\nI got memory leak report when doing fuzz test:\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888107310a80 (size 96):\ncomm \"syz-executor.6\", pid 4610, jiffies 4295140240 (age 20.135s)\nhex dump (first 32 bytes):\n01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........\nbacktrace:\n[\u003c000000001974933b\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:591 [inline]\n[\u003c000000001974933b\u003e] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]\n[\u003c000000001974933b\u003e] io_init_wq_offload fs/io_uring.c:7920 [inline]\n[\u003c000000001974933b\u003e] io_uring_alloc_task_context+0x466/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:7955\n[\u003c0000000039d0800d\u003e] __io_uring_add_tctx_node+0x256/0x360 fs/io_uring.c:9016\n[\u003c000000008482e78c\u003e] io_uring_add_tctx_node fs/io_uring.c:9052 [inline]\n[\u003c000000008482e78c\u003e] __do_sys_io_uring_enter fs/io_uring.c:9354 [inline]\n[\u003c000000008482e78c\u003e] __se_sys_io_uring_enter fs/io_uring.c:9301 [inline]\n[\u003c000000008482e78c\u003e] __x64_sys_io_uring_enter+0xabc/0xc20 fs/io_uring.c:9301\n[\u003c00000000b875f18f\u003e] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n[\u003c00000000b875f18f\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n[\u003c000000006b0a8484\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nCPU0                          CPU1\nio_uring_enter                io_uring_enter\nio_uring_add_tctx_node        io_uring_add_tctx_node\n__io_uring_add_tctx_node      __io_uring_add_tctx_node\nio_uring_alloc_task_context   io_uring_alloc_task_context\nio_init_wq_offload            io_init_wq_offload\nhash = kzalloc                hash = kzalloc\nctx-\u003ehash_map = hash          ctx-\u003ehash_map = hash \u003c- one of the hash is leaked\n\nWhen calling io_uring_enter() in parallel, the 'hash_map' will be leaked,\nadd uring_lock to protect 'hash_map'."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e941894eae31b52f0fd9bdb3ce20620afa152f45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"502731a03f27cba1513fbbff77e508185ffce5bb"},{"version":"e941894eae31b52f0fd9bdb3ce20620afa152f45","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"362a9e65289284f36403058eea2462d0330c1f24"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.13.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.13.*"},{"version":"5.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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