Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated Dec 18, 2025
scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc()
CVE-2021-47258
Description
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.
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Affected products
67- osv-coords65 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Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dc85045ae65b9302a1d2e2ddd7ce4c030153a6amitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/45d83db4728127944b237c0c8248987df9d478e7mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/66a834d092930cf41d809c0e989b13cd6f9ca006mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/79296e292d67fa7b5fb8d8c27343683e823872c8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a696ce1d5d16a33a6cd6400bbcc0339b2460e11mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8958181c1663e24a13434448e7d6b96b5d04900amitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/db08ce595dd64ea9859f7d088b51cbfc8e685c66mitre
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