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High · 7.8 CVE-2021-47163 EUVD-2021-33811GHSA-63cm-3458-95cr

tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

Published Mar 25, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lts-xenial Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-vmware Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tipc: wait and exit until all work queues are done

On some host, a crash could be triggered simply by repeating these
commands several times:

# modprobe tipc
# tipc bearer enable media udp name UDP1 localip 127.0.0.1
# rmmod tipc

[] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffc096bb00
[] Workqueue: events 0xffffffffc096bb00
[] Call Trace:
[] ? process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[] ? worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[] ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[] ? kthread+0x116/0x130
[] ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
[] ? ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

When removing the TIPC module, the UDP tunnel sock will be delayed to
release in a work queue as sock_release() can't be done in rtnl_lock().
If the work queue is schedule to run after the TIPC module is removed,
kernel will crash as the work queue function cleanup_beareri() code no
longer exists when trying to invoke it.

To fix it, this patch introduce a member wq_count in tipc_net to track
the numbers of work queues in schedule, and wait and exit until all
work queues are done in tipc_exit_net().

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.1 5.4.124

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.14.6-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.14.6-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.14.6-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +22 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-80.90 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1054.57 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1055.57 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1016.19 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1049.53 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.4.0-1021.22 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1044.46 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1052.56 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1041.45 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1054.57~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1055.57~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1049.53~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-80.90~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1052.56~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1041.45~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1069.73+fips2 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1073.76+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1031.36 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1067.71~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 4.15.0-2118.124 USN-7496-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 4.15.0-2097.103 USN-7496-5
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips 4.15.0-1135.146 USN-7496-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 4.15.0-2081.87 USN-7496-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips 4.4.0-1113.120 USN-7506-3
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux 4.15.0-237.249 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-aws 4.15.0-1180.193 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1188.203 USN-7496-3
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1173.190 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.15.0-1163.168 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1142.153 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux 4.4.0-268.302 USN-7506-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws 4.4.0-1181.196 USN-7506-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1180.193~16.04.1 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1188.203~16.04.1 USN-7496-3
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp 4.15.0-1173.190~16.04.1 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-hwe 4.15.0-237.249~16.04.1 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.4.0-1144.155 USN-7506-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1142.153~16.04.1 USN-7496-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-aws 4.4.0-1143.149 USN-7506-2
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1188.203~14.04.1 USN-7496-4
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-lts-xenial 4.4.0-268.302~14.04.1 USN-7506-4
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-64kb +7 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1.150300.18.122.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.234.1 SUSE-SU-2025:0034-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1.150300.18.122.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-docs +5 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1.150300.18.122.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.208.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1574-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1.150300.18.122.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.208.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1574-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP3 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP3 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_57 1-150300.7.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kernel-default 4.12.14-122.234.1 SUSE-SU-2024:4100-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_62 1-8.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:4100-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3 kernel-64kb +6 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1.150300.18.122.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-64kb +6 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.204.1.150300.18.122.1 SUSE-SU-2025:01633-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.355-274.598 1.0-0.amzn2 ALAS2-2025-2775
Amazon Linux 2 perf +8 4.14.355-274.598.amzn2 ALAS2-2025-2775

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