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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47379"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:41.677Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:19:51.664Z"
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-2021-47379"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47379.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47379"
title: "blk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd\n\nKASAN reports a use-after-free report when doing fuzz test:\n\n[693354.104835] ==================================================================\n[693354.105094] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160\n[693354.105336] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888be0a35664 by task sh/1453338\n\n[693354.105607] CPU: 41 PID: 1453338 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-147\n[693354.105610] Hardware name: Huawei 2288H V5/BC11SPSCB0, BIOS 0.81 07/02/2018\n[693354.105612] Call Trace:\n[693354.105621]  dump_stack+0xf1/0x19b\n[693354.105626]  ? show_regs_print_info+0x5/0x5\n[693354.105634]  ? printk+0x9c/0xc3\n[693354.105638]  ? cpumask_weight+0x1f/0x1f\n[693354.105648]  print_address_description+0x70/0x360\n[693354.105654]  kasan_report+0x1b2/0x330\n[693354.105659]  ? bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160\n[693354.105665]  ? bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160\n[693354.105670]  bfq_io_set_weight_legacy+0xd3/0x160\n[693354.105675]  ? bfq_cpd_init+0x20/0x20\n[693354.105683]  cgroup_file_write+0x3aa/0x510\n[693354.105693]  ? ___slab_alloc+0x507/0x540\n[693354.105698]  ? cgroup_file_poll+0x60/0x60\n[693354.105702]  ? 0xffffffff89600000\n[693354.105708]  ? usercopy_abort+0x90/0x90\n[693354.105716]  ? mutex_lock+0xef/0x180\n[693354.105726]  kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280\n[693354.105732]  ? cgroup_file_poll+0x60/0x60\n[693354.105738]  vfs_write+0xe7/0x230\n[693354.105744]  ksys_write+0xb0/0x140\n[693354.105749]  ? __ia32_sys_read+0x50/0x50\n[693354.105760]  do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370\n[693354.105766]  ? syscall_return_slowpath+0x260/0x260\n[693354.105772]  ? do_page_fault+0x9b/0x270\n[693354.105779]  ? prepare_exit_to_usermode+0xf9/0x1a0\n[693354.105784]  ? enter_from_user_mode+0x30/0x30\n[693354.105793]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\n\n[693354.105875] Allocated by task 1453337:\n[693354.106001]  kasan_kmalloc+0xa0/0xd0\n[693354.106006]  kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x108/0x220\n[693354.106010]  bfq_pd_alloc+0x96/0x120\n[693354.106015]  blkcg_activate_policy+0x1b7/0x2b0\n[693354.106020]  bfq_create_group_hierarchy+0x1e/0x80\n[693354.106026]  bfq_init_queue+0x678/0x8c0\n[693354.106031]  blk_mq_init_sched+0x1f8/0x460\n[693354.106037]  elevator_switch_mq+0xe1/0x240\n[693354.106041]  elevator_switch+0x25/0x40\n[693354.106045]  elv_iosched_store+0x1a1/0x230\n[693354.106049]  queue_attr_store+0x78/0xb0\n[693354.106053]  kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280\n[693354.106056]  vfs_write+0xe7/0x230\n[693354.106060]  ksys_write+0xb0/0x140\n[693354.106064]  do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370\n[693354.106069]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\n\n[693354.106114] Freed by task 1453336:\n[693354.106225]  __kasan_slab_free+0x130/0x180\n[693354.106229]  kfree+0x90/0x1b0\n[693354.106233]  blkcg_deactivate_policy+0x12c/0x220\n[693354.106238]  bfq_exit_queue+0xf5/0x110\n[693354.106241]  blk_mq_exit_sched+0x104/0x130\n[693354.106245]  __elevator_exit+0x45/0x60\n[693354.106249]  elevator_switch_mq+0xd6/0x240\n[693354.106253]  elevator_switch+0x25/0x40\n[693354.106257]  elv_iosched_store+0x1a1/0x230\n[693354.106261]  queue_attr_store+0x78/0xb0\n[693354.106264]  kernfs_fop_write+0x1ab/0x280\n[693354.106268]  vfs_write+0xe7/0x230\n[693354.106271]  ksys_write+0xb0/0x140\n[693354.106275]  do_syscall_64+0x112/0x370\n[693354.106280]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\n\n[693354.106329] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888be0a35580\n                 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024\n[693354.106736] The buggy address is located 228 bytes inside of\n                 1024-byte region [ffff888be0a35580, ffff888be0a35980)\n[693354.107114] The buggy address belongs to the page:\n[693354.107273] page:ffffea002f828c00 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888107c17080 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0\n[693354.107606] flags: 0x17ffffc0008100(slab|head)\n[693354.107760] raw: 0017ffffc0008100 ffffea002fcbc808 ffffea0030bd3a08 ffff888107c17080\n[693354.108020] r\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d12ddd843f1877de1f7dd2aeea4907cf9ff3ac08"},{"version":"946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f58d305887ad7b24986d58e881f6806bb81b2bdf"},{"version":"946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c2c69e010431b0157c9454adcdd2305809bf9fb"},{"version":"946b81da114b8ba5c74bb01e57c0c6eca2bdc801","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"858560b27645e7e97aca37ee8f232cccd658fbd2"},{"version":"9d5e2d69705fed4ab527f5a283b90ae602f4e0fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3ca6e949b751fa3dfbf475ce635364cef543738b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.14.51","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.16.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"version":"5.4.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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