# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47438"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-22T06:19:33.537Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:48.724Z"
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-2021-47438"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47438.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47438"
title: "net/mlx5e: Fix memory leak in mlx5_core_destroy_cq() error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix memory leak in mlx5_core_destroy_cq() error path\n\nPrior to this patch in case mlx5_core_destroy_cq() failed it returns\nwithout completing all destroy operations and that leads to memory leak.\nInstead, complete the destroy flow before return error.\n\nAlso move mlx5_debug_cq_remove() to the beginning of mlx5_core_destroy_cq()\nto be symmetrical with mlx5_core_create_cq().\n\nkmemleak complains on:\n\nunreferenced object 0xc000000038625100 (size 64):\n  comm \"ethtool\", pid 28301, jiffies 4298062946 (age 785.380s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    60 01 48 94 00 00 00 c0 b8 05 34 c3 00 00 00 c0  `.H.......4.....\n    02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 db 7d c1 00 00 00 c0  ..........}.....\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000009e8643cb\u003e] add_res_tree+0xd0/0x270 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c00000000e7cb8e6c\u003e] mlx5_debug_cq_add+0x5c/0xc0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000002a12918f\u003e] mlx5_core_create_cq+0x1d0/0x2d0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c00000000cef0a696\u003e] mlx5e_create_cq+0x210/0x3f0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000009c642c26\u003e] mlx5e_open_cq+0xb4/0x130 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000058dfa578\u003e] mlx5e_ptp_open+0x7f4/0xe10 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000081839561\u003e] mlx5e_open_channels+0x9cc/0x13e0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000009cf05d4\u003e] mlx5e_switch_priv_channels+0xa4/0x230\n[mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000042bbedd8\u003e] mlx5e_safe_switch_params+0x14c/0x300\n[mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000004bc9db8\u003e] set_pflag_tx_port_ts+0x9c/0x160 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c00000000a0553443\u003e] mlx5e_set_priv_flags+0xd0/0x1b0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c00000000a8f3d84b\u003e] ethnl_set_privflags+0x234/0x2d0\n    [\u003c00000000fd27f27c\u003e] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x108/0x1d0\n    [\u003c00000000f495e2bb\u003e] genl_family_rcv_msg+0xe4/0x1f0\n    [\u003c00000000646c5c2c\u003e] genl_rcv_msg+0x78/0x120\n    [\u003c00000000d53e384e\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x74/0x1a0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f7bddf8c5c01cac74373443b13a68e1c6723a94"},{"version":"e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed8aafea4fec9c654e63445236e0b505e27ed3a7"},{"version":"e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94b960b9deffc02fc0747afc01f72cc62ab099e3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"5.10.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.14","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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