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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47637" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:54:10.709Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:58:14.868Z" 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-2021-47637" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47637.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47637" title: "ubifs: Fix deadlock in concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubifs: Fix deadlock in concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback\n\nFollowing hung tasks:\n[ 77.028764] task:kworker/u8:4 state:D stack: 0 pid: 132\n[ 77.028820] Call Trace:\n[ 77.029027] schedule+0x8c/0x1b0\n[ 77.029067] mutex_lock+0x50/0x60\n[ 77.029074] ubifs_write_inode+0x68/0x1f0 [ubifs]\n[ 77.029117] __writeback_single_inode+0x43c/0x570\n[ 77.029128] writeback_sb_inodes+0x259/0x740\n[ 77.029148] wb_writeback+0x107/0x4d0\n[ 77.029163] wb_workfn+0x162/0x7b0\n\n[ 92.390442] task:aa state:D stack: 0 pid: 1506\n[ 92.390448] Call Trace:\n[ 92.390458] schedule+0x8c/0x1b0\n[ 92.390461] wb_wait_for_completion+0x82/0xd0\n[ 92.390469] __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0xb2/0x110\n[ 92.390472] writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x14/0x20\n[ 92.390476] ubifs_budget_space+0x705/0xdd0 [ubifs]\n[ 92.390503] do_rename.cold+0x7f/0x187 [ubifs]\n[ 92.390549] ubifs_rename+0x8b/0x180 [ubifs]\n[ 92.390571] vfs_rename+0xdb2/0x1170\n[ 92.390580] do_renameat2+0x554/0x770\n\n, are caused by concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback processes:\n\trename_whiteout(Thread 1)\t wb_workfn(Thread2)\nubifs_rename\n do_rename\n lock_4_inodes (Hold ui_mutex)\n ubifs_budget_space\n make_free_space\n shrink_liability\n\t __writeback_inodes_sb_nr\n\t bdi_split_work_to_wbs (Queue new wb work)\n\t\t\t\t\t wb_do_writeback(wb work)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t__writeback_single_inode\n\t\t\t\t\t ubifs_write_inode\n\t\t\t\t\t LOCK(ui_mutex)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t ↑\n\t wb_wait_for_completion (Wait wb work) \u003c-- deadlock!\n\nReproducer (Detail program in [Link]):\n 1. SYS_renameat2(\"/mp/dir/file\", \"/mp/dir/whiteout\", RENAME_WHITEOUT)\n 2. Consume out of space before kernel(mdelay) doing budget for whiteout\n\nFix it by doing whiteout space budget before locking ubifs inodes.\nBTW, it also fixes wrong goto tag 'out_release' in whiteout budget\nerror handling path(It should at least recover dir i_size and unlock\n4 ubifs inodes)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9e0a1fff8db56eaaebb74b4a3ef65f86811c4798","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9dddc8211430fb851ddf0b168e3a00c6f66cc185"},{"version":"9e0a1fff8db56eaaebb74b4a3ef65f86811c4798","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37bdf1ad592555ecda1d55b89f6e393e4c0589d1"},{"version":"9e0a1fff8db56eaaebb74b4a3ef65f86811c4798","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83e42a78428fc354f5e2049935b84c8d8d29b787"},{"version":"9e0a1fff8db56eaaebb74b4a3ef65f86811c4798","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c58af8564a7b08757173009030b74baf4b2b762b"},{"version":"9e0a1fff8db56eaaebb74b4a3ef65f86811c4798","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70e9090acc32348cedc5def0cd6d5c126efc97b9"},{"version":"9e0a1fff8db56eaaebb74b4a3ef65f86811c4798","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b278c8dcfb565cb65eceb62a38cbf7a7c326db5"},{"version":"9e0a1fff8db56eaaebb74b4a3ef65f86811c4798","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"afd427048047e8efdedab30e8888044e2be5aa9c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"4.19.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","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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