High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 28, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-47040
CVE-2021-47040
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring: fix overflows checks in provide buffers
Colin reported before possible overflow and sign extension problems in io_provide_buffers_prep(). As Linus pointed out previous attempt did nothing useful, see d81269fecb8ce ("io_uring: fix provide_buffers sign extension").
Do that with help of check__overflow helpers. And fix struct io_provide_buf::len type, as it doesn't make much sense to keep it signed.
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