{"id":"CVE-2021-47582","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"USB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable\n\nThe USBDEVFS_CONTROL and USBDEVFS_BULK ioctls invoke\nusb_start_wait_urb(), which contains an uninterruptible wait with a\nuser-specified timeout value.  If timeout value is very large and the\ndevice being accessed does not respond in a reasonable amount of time,\nthe kernel will complain about \"Task X blocked for more than N\nseconds\", as found in testing by syzbot:\n\nINFO: task syz-executor.0:8700 blocked for more than 143 seconds.\n      Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7-syzkaller #0\n\"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\ntask:syz-executor.0  state:D stack:23192 pid: 8700 ppid:  8455 flags:0x00004004\nCall Trace:\n context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4681 [inline]\n __schedule+0xc07/0x11f0 kernel/sched/core.c:5938\n schedule+0x14b/0x210 kernel/sched/core.c:6017\n schedule_timeout+0x98/0x2f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1857\n do_wait_for_common+0x2da/0x480 kernel/sched/completion.c:85\n __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]\n wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]\n wait_for_completion_timeout+0x46/0x60 kernel/sched/completion.c:157\n usb_start_wait_urb+0x167/0x550 drivers/usb/core/message.c:63\n do_proc_bulk+0x978/0x1080 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1236\n proc_bulk drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1273 [inline]\n usbdev_do_ioctl drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2547 [inline]\n usbdev_ioctl+0x3441/0x6b10 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2713\n...\n\nTo fix this problem, this patch replaces usbfs's calls to\nusb_control_msg() and usb_bulk_msg() with special-purpose code that\ndoes essentially the same thing (as recommended in the comment for\nusb_start_wait_urb()), except that it always uses a killable wait and\nit uses GFP_KERNEL rather than GFP_NOIO.","publishedAt":"2024-06-19T14:53:48.788Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-11T13:57:19.981Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","lessThan":"403716741c6c2c510dce44e88f085a740f535de6","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","lessThan":"ae8709b296d80c7f45aa1f35c0e7659ad69edce1","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/usb/core/devio.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"2.6.12","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.11","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.16","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/usb/core/devio.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/403716741c6c2c510dce44e88f085a740f535de6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae8709b296d80c7f45aa1f35c0e7659ad69edce1"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T19:49:19.404Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2021/47xxx/CVE-2021-47582.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2021-47582","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2024-06-19T14:53:48.788Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T13:57:19.981Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2024-05-24T15:11:00.730Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"USB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable\n\nThe USBDEVFS_CONTROL and USBDEVFS_BULK ioctls invoke\nusb_start_wait_urb(), which contains an uninterruptible wait with a\nuser-specified timeout value.  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