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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47391" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:49.545Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:36.737Z" 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-2021-47391" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47391.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47391" title: "RDMA/cma: Ensure rdma_addr_cancel() happens before issuing more requests" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/cma: Ensure rdma_addr_cancel() happens before issuing more requests\n\nThe FSM can run in a circle allowing rdma_resolve_ip() to be called twice\non the same id_priv. While this cannot happen without going through the\nwork, it violates the invariant that the same address resolution\nbackground request cannot be active twice.\n\n CPU 1 CPU 2\n\nrdma_resolve_addr():\n RDMA_CM_IDLE -\u003e RDMA_CM_ADDR_QUERY\n rdma_resolve_ip(addr_handler) #1\n\n\t\t\t process_one_req(): for #1\n addr_handler():\n RDMA_CM_ADDR_QUERY -\u003e RDMA_CM_ADDR_BOUND\n mutex_unlock(&id_priv-\u003ehandler_mutex);\n [.. handler still running ..]\n\nrdma_resolve_addr():\n RDMA_CM_ADDR_BOUND -\u003e RDMA_CM_ADDR_QUERY\n rdma_resolve_ip(addr_handler)\n !! two requests are now on the req_list\n\nrdma_destroy_id():\n destroy_id_handler_unlock():\n _destroy_id():\n cma_cancel_operation():\n rdma_addr_cancel()\n\n // process_one_req() self removes it\n\t\t spin_lock_bh(&lock);\n cancel_delayed_work(&req-\u003ework);\n\t if (!list_empty(&req-\u003elist)) == true\n\n ! rdma_addr_cancel() returns after process_on_req #1 is done\n\n kfree(id_priv)\n\n\t\t\t process_one_req(): for #2\n addr_handler():\n\t mutex_lock(&id_priv-\u003ehandler_mutex);\n !! Use after free on id_priv\n\nrdma_addr_cancel() expects there to be one req on the list and only\ncancels the first one. The self-removal behavior of the work only happens\nafter the handler has returned. This yields a situations where the\nreq_list can have two reqs for the same \"handle\" but rdma_addr_cancel()\nonly cancels the first one.\n\nThe second req remains active beyond rdma_destroy_id() and will\nuse-after-free id_priv once it inevitably triggers.\n\nFix this by remembering if the id_priv has called rdma_resolve_ip() and\nalways cancel before calling it again. This ensures the req_list never\ngets more than one item in it and doesn't cost anything in the normal flow\nthat never uses this strange error path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e51060f08a61965c4dd91516d82fe90617152590","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a085fa9b7d644a234465091e038c1911e1a4f2a"},{"version":"e51060f08a61965c4dd91516d82fe90617152590","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03d884671572af8bcfbc9e63944c1021efce7589"},{"version":"e51060f08a61965c4dd91516d82fe90617152590","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"305d568b72f17f674155a2a8275f865f207b3808"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.18"},{"version":"5.10.188","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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