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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47599" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-19T14:54:00.272Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:20:17.887Z" 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-2021-47599" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47599.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47599" title: "btrfs: use latest_dev in btrfs_show_devname" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: use latest_dev in btrfs_show_devname\n\nThe test case btrfs/238 reports the warning below:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 481 at fs/btrfs/super.c:2509 btrfs_show_devname+0x104/0x1e8 [btrfs]\n CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G W O 5.14.0-rc1-custom #72\n Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n Call trace:\n btrfs_show_devname+0x108/0x1b4 [btrfs]\n show_mountinfo+0x234/0x2c4\n m_show+0x28/0x34\n seq_read_iter+0x12c/0x3c4\n vfs_read+0x29c/0x2c8\n ksys_read+0x80/0xec\n __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x34\n invoke_syscall+0x50/0xf8\n do_el0_svc+0x88/0x138\n el0_svc+0x2c/0x8c\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xe4\n el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c\n\nReason:\nWhile btrfs_prepare_sprout() moves the fs_devices::devices into\nfs_devices::seed_list, the btrfs_show_devname() searches for the devices\nand found none, leading to the warning as in above.\n\nFix:\nlatest_dev is updated according to the changes to the device list.\nThat means we could use the latest_dev-\u003ename to show the device name in\n/proc/self/mounts, the pointer will be always valid as it's assigned\nbefore the device is deleted from the list in remove or replace.\nThe RCU protection is sufficient as the device structure is freed after\nsynchronization." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4faf55b03823e96c44dc4e364520000ed3b12fdb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e342c2558016ead462f376b6c6c2ac5efc17f3b1"},{"version":"4faf55b03823e96c44dc4e364520000ed3b12fdb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6605fd2f394bba0a0059df2b6cfc87b0b6d393a2"},{"version":"fa511954694cbea4d0cb59c81c8670276920c08c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3d3452920cacc3a46444ecca26af5d181410ff19","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ca21728e18d34fd5f449bb0581160e0eaee498a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1c986b7e8c1bf8fabbc294036b003286cc3a8c7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.141","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.60","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.7.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.8.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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