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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47552"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:09:55.295Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:48:22.040Z"
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-2021-47552"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47552.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47552"
title: "blk-mq: cancel blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue and disk_release()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-mq: cancel blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue and disk_release()\n\nFor avoiding to slow down queue destroy, we don't call\nblk_mq_quiesce_queue() in blk_cleanup_queue(), instead of delaying to\ncancel dispatch work in blk_release_queue().\n\nHowever, this way has caused kernel oops[1], reported by Changhui. The log\nshows that scsi_device can be freed before running blk_release_queue(),\nwhich is expected too since scsi_device is released after the scsi disk\nis closed and the scsi_device is removed.\n\nFixes the issue by canceling blk-mq dispatch work in both blk_cleanup_queue()\nand disk_release():\n\n1) when disk_release() is run, the disk has been closed, and any sync\ndispatch activities have been done, so canceling dispatch work is enough to\nquiesce filesystem I/O dispatch activity.\n\n2) in blk_cleanup_queue(), we only focus on passthrough request, and\npassthrough request is always explicitly allocated & freed by\nits caller, so once queue is frozen, all sync dispatch activity\nfor passthrough request has been done, then it is enough to just cancel\ndispatch work for avoiding any dispatch activity.\n\n[1] kernel panic log\n[12622.769416] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000300\n[12622.777186] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[12622.782918] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[12622.788649] PGD 0 P4D 0\n[12622.791474] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n[12622.796138] CPU: 10 PID: 744 Comm: kworker/10:1H Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.15.0+ #1\n[12622.804877] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0H21J3, BIOS 1.5.4 10/002/2015\n[12622.813321] Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn\n[12622.818572] RIP: 0010:sbitmap_get+0x75/0x190\n[12622.823336] Code: 85 80 00 00 00 41 8b 57 08 85 d2 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 45 31 e4 48 63 cd 48 8d 1c 49 48 c1 e3 06 49 03 5f 10 4c 8d 6b 40 83 f0 01 \u003c48\u003e 8b 33 44 89 f2 4c 89 ef 0f b6 c8 e8 fa f3 ff ff 83 f8 ff 75 58\n[12622.844290] RSP: 0018:ffffb00a446dbd40 EFLAGS: 00010202\n[12622.850120] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000300 RCX: 0000000000000004\n[12622.858082] RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffffa0b7a2dfe030\n[12622.866042] RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffa0b742721334\n[12622.874003] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: 0000000000000000\n[12622.881964] R13: 0000000000000340 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffa0b7a2dfe030\n[12622.889926] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0baafb40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[12622.898956] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[12622.905367] CR2: 0000000000000300 CR3: 0000000641210001 CR4: 00000000001706e0\n[12622.913328] Call Trace:\n[12622.916055]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[12622.918394]  scsi_mq_get_budget+0x1a/0x110\n[12622.922969]  __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x1d4/0x320\n[12622.928404]  ? pick_next_task_fair+0x39/0x390\n[12622.933268]  __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xf4/0x140\n[12622.939194]  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60\n[12622.944829]  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x30/0xa0\n[12622.949593]  process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0\n[12622.954059]  worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0\n[12622.958144]  ? rescuer_thread+0x370/0x370\n[12622.962616]  kthread+0x158/0x180\n[12622.966218]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40\n[12622.970884]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n[12622.974875]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[12622.977309] Modules linked in: scsi_debug rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache netfs sunrpc dm_multipath intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common dell_wmi_descriptor sb_edac rfkill video x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp dcdbas coretemp kvm_intel kvm mgag200 irqbypass i2c_algo_bit rapl drm_kms_helper ipmi_ssif intel_cstate intel_uncore syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops pcspkr cec mei_me lpc_ich mei ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter drm fuse xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod t10_pi sg ixgbe ahci libahci crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel libata megaraid_sas ghash_clmulni_intel tg3 wdat_w\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1b97871b501f1bac0fd39a073c4c8473ee457a55","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e03513f58919d9e2bc6df765ca2c9da863d03d90"},{"version":"1b97871b501f1bac0fd39a073c4c8473ee457a55","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a19b28f7929866e1cec92a3619f4de9f2d20005"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.15.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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