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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47408"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:04:00.651Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:54:08.896Z"
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-2021-47408"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47408.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47408"
title: "netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups\n\nSyzbot was able to trigger the following warning [1]\n\nNo repro found by syzbot yet but I was able to trigger similar issue\nby having 2 scripts running in parallel, changing conntrack hash sizes,\nand:\n\nfor j in `seq 1 1000` ; do unshare -n /bin/true \u003e/dev/null ; done\n\nIt would take more than 5 minutes for net_namespace structures\nto be cleaned up.\n\nThis is because nf_ct_iterate_cleanup() has to restart everytime\na resize happened.\n\nBy adding a mutex, we can serialize hash resizes and cleanups\nand also make get_next_corpse() faster by skipping over empty\nbuckets.\n\nEven without resizes in the picture, this patch considerably\nspeeds up network namespace dismantles.\n\n[1]\nINFO: task syz-executor.0:8312 can't die for more than 144 seconds.\ntask:syz-executor.0  state:R  running task     stack:25672 pid: 8312 ppid:  6573 flags:0x00004006\nCall Trace:\n context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4955 [inline]\n __schedule+0x940/0x26f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6236\n preempt_schedule_common+0x45/0xc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6408\n preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:35\n __local_bh_enable_ip+0x109/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:390\n local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:32 [inline]\n get_next_corpse net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2252 [inline]\n nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x15a/0x450 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2275\n nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list+0x14c/0x4f0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2469\n ops_exit_list+0x10d/0x160 net/core/net_namespace.c:171\n setup_net+0x639/0xa30 net/core/net_namespace.c:349\n copy_net_ns+0x319/0x760 net/core/net_namespace.c:470\n create_new_namespaces+0x3f6/0xb20 kernel/nsproxy.c:110\n unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xc1/0x1f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:226\n ksys_unshare+0x445/0x920 kernel/fork.c:3128\n __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3202 [inline]\n __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3200 [inline]\n __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3200\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\nRIP: 0033:0x7f63da68e739\nRSP: 002b:00007f63d7c05188 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000110\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f63da792f80 RCX: 00007f63da68e739\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000040000000\nRBP: 00007f63da6e8cc4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f63da792f80\nR13: 00007fff50b75d3f R14: 00007f63d7c05300 R15: 0000000000022000\n\nShowing all locks held in the system:\n1 lock held by khungtaskd/27:\n #0: ffffffff8b980020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x53/0x260 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6446\n2 locks held by kworker/u4:2/153:\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic64_set arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:34 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: arch_atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: atomic_long_set include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1198 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_data kernel/workqueue.c:634 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: set_work_pool_and_clear_pending kernel/workqueue.c:661 [inline]\n #0: ffff888010c69138 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x896/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2268\n #1: ffffc9000140fdb0 ((kfence_timer).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x8ca/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2272\n1 lock held by systemd-udevd/2970:\n1 lock held by in:imklog/6258:\n #0: ffff88807f970ff0 (&f-\u003ef_pos_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __fdget_pos+0xe9/0x100 fs/file.c:990\n3 locks held by kworker/1:6/8158:\n1 lock held by syz-executor.0/8312:\n2 locks held by kworker/u4:13/9320:\n1 lock held by\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0d02d5646eb84403766a11a1d3b19e670a3d45d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2d192301a0df8160d1555b66ae8611e8050e424"},{"version":"0d02d5646eb84403766a11a1d3b19e670a3d45d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ea6f5848281182ce0cff6cafdcf3fbdeb8ca7e1"},{"version":"0d02d5646eb84403766a11a1d3b19e670a3d45d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9edc188fc76499b0b9bd60364084037f6d03773"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"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"}]

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