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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47554"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-24T15:09:56.614Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:56:52.458Z"
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-2021-47554"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47554.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47554"
title: "vdpa_sim: avoid putting an uninitialized iova_domain"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvdpa_sim: avoid putting an uninitialized iova_domain\n\nThe system will crash if we put an uninitialized iova_domain, this\ncould happen when an error occurs before initializing the iova_domain\nin vdpasim_create().\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n...\nRIP: 0010:__cpuhp_state_remove_instance+0x96/0x1c0\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n put_iova_domain+0x29/0x220\n vdpasim_free+0xd1/0x120 [vdpa_sim]\n vdpa_release_dev+0x21/0x40 [vdpa]\n device_release+0x33/0x90\n kobject_release+0x63/0x160\n vdpasim_create+0x127/0x2a0 [vdpa_sim]\n vdpasim_net_dev_add+0x7d/0xfe [vdpa_sim_net]\n vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit+0xe1/0x1a0 [vdpa]\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x112/0x140\n genl_rcv_msg+0xdf/0x1d0\n ...\n\nSo we must make sure the iova_domain is already initialized before\nput it.\n\nIn addition, we may get the following warning in this case:\nWARNING: ... drivers/iommu/iova.c:344 iova_cache_put+0x58/0x70\n\nSo we must make sure the iova_cache_put() is invoked only if the\niova_cache_get() is already invoked. Let's fix it together."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4080fc1067501707b9693b8003feae7d50d14e35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4d58ac67e63727aa45a4a26185876f598e8b3dd"},{"version":"4080fc1067501707b9693b8003feae7d50d14e35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb93ce4b150dde79f58e34103cbd1fe829796649"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"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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