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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47387" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:46.925Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:53:42.451Z" 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-2021-47387" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47387.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47387" title: "cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables\n\nThe struct sugov_tunables is protected by the kobject, so we can't free\nit directly. Otherwise we would get a call trace like this:\n ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x30\n WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 720 at lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: a.sh Tainted: G W 5.14.0-rc1-next-20210715-yocto-standard+ #507\n Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)\n pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)\n pc : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n lr : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n sp : ffff80001ecaf910\n x29: ffff80001ecaf910 x28: ffff00011b10b8d0 x27: ffff800011043d80\n x26: ffff00011a8f0000 x25: ffff800013cb3ff0 x24: 0000000000000000\n x23: ffff80001142aa68 x22: ffff800011043d80 x21: ffff00010de46f20\n x20: ffff800013c0c520 x19: ffff800011d8f5b0 x18: 0000000000000010\n x17: 6e6968207473696c x16: 5f72656d6974203a x15: 6570797420746365\n x14: 6a626f2029302065 x13: 303378302f307830 x12: 2b6e665f72656d69\n x11: ffff8000124b1560 x10: ffff800012331520 x9 : ffff8000100ca6b0\n x8 : 000000000017ffe8 x7 : c0000000fffeffff x6 : 0000000000000001\n x5 : ffff800011d8c000 x4 : ffff800011d8c740 x3 : 0000000000000000\n x2 : ffff0001108301c0 x1 : ab3c90eedf9c0f00 x0 : 0000000000000000\n Call trace:\n debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1c0/0x230\n debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x20/0x88\n slab_free_freelist_hook+0x154/0x1c8\n kfree+0x114/0x5d0\n sugov_exit+0xbc/0xc0\n cpufreq_exit_governor+0x44/0x90\n cpufreq_set_policy+0x268/0x4a8\n store_scaling_governor+0xe0/0x128\n store+0xc0/0xf0\n sysfs_kf_write+0x54/0x80\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x1c0\n new_sync_write+0xf0/0x190\n vfs_write+0x2d4/0x478\n ksys_write+0x74/0x100\n __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30\n invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x54/0xe0\n do_el0_svc+0x64/0x158\n el0_svc+0x2c/0xb0\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb8\n el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c\n irq event stamp: 5518\n hardirqs last enabled at (5517): [\u003cffff8000100cbd7c\u003e] console_unlock+0x554/0x6c8\n hardirqs last disabled at (5518): [\u003cffff800010fc0638\u003e] el1_dbg+0x28/0xa0\n softirqs last enabled at (5504): [\u003cffff8000100106e0\u003e] __do_softirq+0x4d0/0x6c0\n softirqs last disabled at (5483): [\u003cffff800010049548\u003e] irq_exit+0x1b0/0x1b8\n\nSo split the original sugov_tunables_free() into two functions,\nsugov_clear_global_tunables() is just used to clear the global_tunables\nand the new sugov_tunables_free() is used as kobj_type::release to\nrelease the sugov_tunables safely." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb4a53ba37532c861a5f3f22803391018a41849a"},{"version":"9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"463c46705f321201090b69c4ad5da0cd2ce614c9"},{"version":"9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30d57cf2c4116ca6d34ecd1cac94ad84f8bc446c"},{"version":"9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67c98e023135ff81b8d52998a6fdb8ca0c518d82"},{"version":"9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7d4fc84404d45d72f4490417e8cc3efa4af93f1"},{"version":"9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d62aec52a8c5b1d25a2364b243fcc5098a2ede9"},{"version":"9bdcb44e391da5c41b98573bf0305a0e0b1c9569","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5c6b312ce3cc97e90ea159446e6bfa06645364d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"4.9.285","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.249","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.71","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","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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