CVE-2026-98128 PUBLISHED

scsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

scsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()

mpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr() increments the target device kref when it returns a device. If a subsequent error triggers a goto out_fail after the tgtdev reference is acquired, the reference is never released because the out_fail path does not call mpi3mr_tgtdev_put(). This prevents the target device structure from ever being freed.

Add a tgtdev put in the out_fail path, guarded by a NULL check since tgtdev is only acquired for SAS_END_DEVICE types and the same cleanup path is shared by earlier error cases where tgtdev is still NULL.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3 to 040146f81d099006a354b0caacc7f01ca00f257e (excl.)
  • affected from e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3 to 06a7073b33b8f5cb0ee71e07dc669efffb1c7d58 (excl.)
  • affected from e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3 to 1ccbe8c42009706af79e6629c70d42fc929aef2b (excl.)
  • affected from e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3 to 419d129f970aaa6567dbac366b0c93784bf9ec97 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc2 to * (incl.)

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