CVE-2026-45997

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's SCSI disk sd driver. When adding a new device, a failure in deviceadd can lead to a resource leak where a gendisk remains referenced but is not properly freed. This missing cleanup, specifically the putdisk call, can result in resource exhaustion. A local...

CVE-2026-45997 scsi: sd: fix missing put_disk() when device_add(&disk_dev) fails

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: sd: fix missing putdisk when deviceadd&diskdev fails If deviceadd&sdkp-diskdev fails, putdevice runs scsidiskrelease, which frees the scsidisk but leaves the gendisk referenced. The deviceadddisk error path in sdprobe calls...