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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47349" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T14:35:54.314Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:52:58.952Z" 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-2021-47349" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47349.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47349" title: "mwifiex: bring down link before deleting interface" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmwifiex: bring down link before deleting interface\n\nWe can deadlock when rmmod'ing the driver or going through firmware\nreset, because the cfg80211_unregister_wdev() has to bring down the link\nfor us, ... which then grab the same wiphy lock.\n\nnl80211_del_interface() already handles a very similar case, with a nice\ndescription:\n\n /*\n * We hold RTNL, so this is safe, without RTNL opencount cannot\n * reach 0, and thus the rdev cannot be deleted.\n *\n * We need to do it for the dev_close(), since that will call\n * the netdev notifiers, and we need to acquire the mutex there\n * but don't know if we get there from here or from some other\n * place (e.g. \"ip link set ... down\").\n */\n mutex_unlock(&rdev-\u003ewiphy.mtx);\n...\n\nDo similarly for mwifiex teardown, by ensuring we bring the link down\nfirst.\n\nSample deadlock trace:\n\n[ 247.103516] INFO: task rmmod:2119 blocked for more than 123 seconds.\n[ 247.110630] Not tainted 5.12.4 #5\n[ 247.115796] \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n[ 247.124557] task:rmmod state:D stack: 0 pid: 2119 ppid: 2114 flags:0x00400208\n[ 247.133905] Call trace:\n[ 247.136644] __switch_to+0x130/0x170\n[ 247.140643] __schedule+0x714/0xa0c\n[ 247.144548] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x88/0xf4\n[ 247.149714] __mutex_lock_common+0x43c/0x750\n[ 247.154496] mutex_lock_nested+0x5c/0x68\n[ 247.158884] cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call+0x280/0x4e0 [cfg80211]\n[ 247.165769] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x78\n[ 247.170742] call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x68/0xa4\n[ 247.176305] __dev_close_many+0x7c/0x138\n[ 247.180693] dev_close_many+0x7c/0x10c\n[ 247.184893] unregister_netdevice_many+0xfc/0x654\n[ 247.190158] unregister_netdevice_queue+0xb4/0xe0\n[ 247.195424] _cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0xa4/0x204 [cfg80211]\n[ 247.201816] cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x20/0x2c [cfg80211]\n[ 247.208016] mwifiex_del_virtual_intf+0xc8/0x188 [mwifiex]\n[ 247.214174] mwifiex_uninit_sw+0x158/0x1b0 [mwifiex]\n[ 247.219747] mwifiex_remove_card+0x38/0xa0 [mwifiex]\n[ 247.225316] mwifiex_pcie_remove+0xd0/0xe0 [mwifiex_pcie]\n[ 247.231451] pci_device_remove+0x50/0xe0\n[ 247.235849] device_release_driver_internal+0x110/0x1b0\n[ 247.241701] driver_detach+0x5c/0x9c\n[ 247.245704] bus_remove_driver+0x84/0xb8\n[ 247.250095] driver_unregister+0x3c/0x60\n[ 247.254486] pci_unregister_driver+0x2c/0x90\n[ 247.259267] cleanup_module+0x18/0xcdc [mwifiex_pcie]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a05829a7222e9d10c416dd2dbbf3929fe6646b89","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3041d39d3c14da97fa3476835aba043ba810cf0"},{"version":"a05829a7222e9d10c416dd2dbbf3929fe6646b89","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35af69c7c0490fdccfc159c6a87e4d1dc070838a"},{"version":"a05829a7222e9d10c416dd2dbbf3929fe6646b89","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f9482aa8d412b4ba06ce6ab8e333fb8ca29a06e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.12.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.13.*"},{"version":"5.14","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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