CVE-2026-90268 PUBLISHED

scsi: sd: Fix error handling in sd_probe() after large pool creation failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

scsi: sd: Fix error handling in sd_probe() after large pool creation failure

After device_add(&sdkp->disk_dev) succeeds, sd_large_pool_create() failure must unregister disk_dev and let scsi_disk_release() free sdkp. Going through out_free_index kfree()s an already registered device and leaks the sysfs entry.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 7179e626b76eb42f2529c6f6dd6ba88ea2445372 to 748a14a0d41cfe3017251c11b314f85045414942 (excl.)
  • affected from 7179e626b76eb42f2529c6f6dd6ba88ea2445372 to e3cc6ea1a745e7f5d326f919a428b244fa119d8f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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