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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47424"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:04:11.271Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:54:26.099Z"
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-2021-47424"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47424.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47424"
title: "i40e: Fix freeing of uninitialized misc IRQ vector"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni40e: Fix freeing of uninitialized misc IRQ vector\n\nWhen VSI set up failed in i40e_probe() as part of PF switch set up\ndriver was trying to free misc IRQ vectors in\ni40e_clear_interrupt_scheme and produced a kernel Oops:\n\n   Trying to free already-free IRQ 266\n   WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1731 __free_irq+0x9a/0x300\n   Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn\n   RIP: 0010:__free_irq+0x9a/0x300\n   Call Trace:\n   ? synchronize_irq+0x3a/0xa0\n   free_irq+0x2e/0x60\n   i40e_clear_interrupt_scheme+0x53/0x190 [i40e]\n   i40e_probe.part.108+0x134b/0x1a40 [i40e]\n   ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x158/0x1c0\n   ? acpi_ut_update_ref_count.part.1+0x8e/0x345\n   ? acpi_ut_update_object_reference+0x15e/0x1e2\n   ? strstr+0x21/0x70\n   ? irq_get_irq_data+0xa/0x20\n   ? mp_check_pin_attr+0x13/0xc0\n   ? irq_get_irq_data+0xa/0x20\n   ? mp_map_pin_to_irq+0xd3/0x2f0\n   ? acpi_register_gsi_ioapic+0x93/0x170\n   ? pci_conf1_read+0xa4/0x100\n   ? pci_bus_read_config_word+0x49/0x70\n   ? do_pci_enable_device+0xcc/0x100\n   local_pci_probe+0x41/0x90\n   work_for_cpu_fn+0x16/0x20\n   process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360\n   worker_thread+0x1cf/0x390\n   ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0\n   kthread+0x112/0x130\n   ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10\n   ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40\n\nThe problem is that at that point misc IRQ vectors\nwere not allocated yet and we get a call trace\nthat driver is trying to free already free IRQ vectors.\n\nAdd a check in i40e_clear_interrupt_scheme for __I40E_MISC_IRQ_REQUESTED\nPF state before calling i40e_free_misc_vector. This state is set only if\nmisc IRQ vectors were properly initialized."
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