cve-2021-47214
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-10 19:01
Modified
2025-05-04 12:41
Severity ?
Summary
hugetlb, userfaultfd: fix reservation restore on userfaultfd error
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5069d44e2fbc4a9093d005b3ef0949add3dd27ePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5069d44e2fbc4a9093d005b3ef0949add3dd27ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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