CVE-2021-47185

medium
Published 2024-11-12 · Modified 2024-06-05
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: tty_buffer: Fix the softlockup issue in flush_to_ldisc When running ltp testcase(ltp/testcases/kernel/pty/pty04.c) with arm64, there is a soft lockup, which look like this one: Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1ec show_stack+0x24/0x30 dump_stack+0xd0/0x128 panic+0x15c/0x374 watchdog_timer_fn+0x2b8/0x304 __run_hrtimer+0x88/0x2c0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0xa4/0x120 hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x270 arch_timer_handler_phys+0x40/0x50 handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x94/0x220 __handle_domain_irq+0x88/0xf0 gic_handle_irq+0x84/0xfc el1_irq+0xc8/0x180 slip_unesc+0x80/0x214 [slip] tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x64/0x80 tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x50/0x90 flush_to_ldisc+0xbc/0x110 process_one_work+0x1d4/0x4b0 worker_thread+0x180/0x430 kthread+0x11c/0x120 In the testcase pty04, The first process call the write syscall to send data to the pty master. At the same time, the workqueue will do the flush_to_ldisc to pop data in a loop until there is no more data left. When the sender and workqueue running in different core, the sender sends data fastly in full time which will result in workqueue doing work in loop for a long time and occuring softlockup in flush_to_ldisc with kernel configured without preempt. So I add need_resched check and cond_resched in the flush_to_ldisc loop to avoid it.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-3627.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3627

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-3618.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278537

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278431

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278417

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278409

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278398

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278356

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278314

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278268

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278240

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278237

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278169

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275777

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275707

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275666

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275655

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2275645

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2274624

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273262

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273260

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273223

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273094

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2273092

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2272791

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2272780

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2271476

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2271469

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2270881

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2270879

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2270080

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2269856

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2269213

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268317

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268315

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268309

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268293

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268291

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267804

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267797

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267789

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267758

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267724

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267705

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267509

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267355

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267185

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267038

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266841

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266746

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Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266446

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266296

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265833

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265654

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265646

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265271

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2263875

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2257406

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2250843

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-47185

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47185.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:3618

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:3627

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
rockylinux rocky8fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.15.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.84-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.15.5-1
debian debiansidfixed5.15.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.15.5-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.