CVE-2021-47258 scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc()

2024-05-2114:19:52

Linux

github.com

linux kernel

scsi_host_alloc

error handling

vulnerability

device name

put_device

kfree

scsi_host_dev_release

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.4%

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

scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc()

After device is initialized via device_initialize(), or its name is set via
dev_set_name(), the device has to be freed via put_device(). Otherwise
device name will be leaked because it is allocated dynamically in
dev_set_name().

Fix the leak by replacing kfree() with put_device(). Since
scsi_host_dev_release() properly handles IDA and kthread removal, remove
special-casing these from the error handling as well.

CNA Affected

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