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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47493"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-22T08:19:41.419Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:48:03.801Z"
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-2021-47493"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47493.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47493"
title: "ocfs2: fix race between searching chunks and release journal_head from buffer_head"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: fix race between searching chunks and release journal_head from buffer_head\n\nEncountered a race between ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() and\njbd2_journal_put_journal_head() resulting in the below vmcore.\n\n  PID: 106879  TASK: ffff880244ba9c00  CPU: 2   COMMAND: \"loop3\"\n  Call trace:\n    panic\n    oops_end\n    no_context\n    __bad_area_nosemaphore\n    bad_area_nosemaphore\n    __do_page_fault\n    do_page_fault\n    page_fault\n      [exception RIP: ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits+316]\n    ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_cluster_group_search [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_search_chain [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits [ocfs2]\n    __ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_local_alloc_slide_window [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_reserve_local_alloc_bits [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_reserve_clusters_with_limit [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_reserve_clusters [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_lock_refcount_allocators [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_make_clusters_writable [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_replace_cow [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_refcount_cow [ocfs2]\n    ocfs2_file_write_iter [ocfs2]\n    lo_rw_aio\n    loop_queue_work\n    kthread_worker_fn\n    kthread\n    ret_from_fork\n\nWhen ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() called bh2jh(bg_bh), the\nbg_bh-\u003eb_private NULL as jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() raced and\nreleased the jounal head from the buffer head.  Needed to take bit lock\nfor the bit 'BH_JournalHead' to fix this race."
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