# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47590"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-19T14:53:54.244Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:57:29.079Z"
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-2021-47590"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47590.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47590"
title: "mptcp: fix deadlock in __mptcp_push_pending()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix deadlock in __mptcp_push_pending()\n\n__mptcp_push_pending() may call mptcp_flush_join_list() with subflow\nsocket lock held. If such call hits mptcp_sockopt_sync_all() then\nsubsequently __mptcp_sockopt_sync() could try to lock the subflow\nsocket for itself, causing a deadlock.\n\nsysrq: Show Blocked State\ntask:ss-server       state:D stack:    0 pid:  938 ppid:     1 flags:0x00000000\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __schedule+0x2d6/0x10c0\n ? __mod_memcg_state+0x4d/0x70\n ? csum_partial+0xd/0x20\n ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x26/0x50\n schedule+0x4e/0xc0\n __lock_sock+0x69/0x90\n ? do_wait_intr_irq+0xa0/0xa0\n __lock_sock_fast+0x35/0x50\n mptcp_sockopt_sync_all+0x38/0xc0\n __mptcp_push_pending+0x105/0x200\n mptcp_sendmsg+0x466/0x490\n sock_sendmsg+0x57/0x60\n __sys_sendto+0xf0/0x160\n ? do_wait_intr_irq+0xa0/0xa0\n ? fpregs_restore_userregs+0x12/0xd0\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\nRIP: 0033:0x7f9ba546c2d0\nRSP: 002b:00007ffdc3b762d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9ba56c8060 RCX: 00007f9ba546c2d0\nRDX: 000000000000077a RSI: 0000000000e5e180 RDI: 0000000000000234\nRBP: 0000000000cc57f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f9ba56c8060\nR13: 0000000000b6ba60 R14: 0000000000cc7840 R15: 41d8685b1d7901b8\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFix the issue by using __mptcp_flush_join_list() instead of plain\nmptcp_flush_join_list() inside __mptcp_push_pending(), as suggested by\nFlorian. The sockopt sync will be deferred to the workqueue."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1b3e7ede1365a24db1b4fd837e58a595f52fa4ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23311b92755ffa9087332d1bb8c71c0f6a10cc08"},{"version":"1b3e7ede1365a24db1b4fd837e58a595f52fa4ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d79e3756ca90f7a6087b77b62c1d9c0801e0820"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.11","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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