{"id":"CVE-2022-50727","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"scsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct_device_init()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct_device_init()\n\nIn efct_device_init(), when efct_scsi_reg_fc_transport() fails,\nefct_scsi_tgt_driver_exit() is not called to release memory for\nefct_scsi_tgt_driver_init() and causes memleak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881020ce000 (size 2048):\n  comm \"modprobe\", pid 465, jiffies 4294928222 (age 55.872s)\n  backtrace:\n    [<0000000021a1ef1b>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x110\n    [<000000004c3ed51c>] target_register_template+0x4fd/0x7b0 [target_core_mod]\n    [<00000000f3393296>] efct_scsi_tgt_driver_init+0x18/0x50 [efct]\n    [<00000000115de533>] 0xffffffffc0d90011\n    [<00000000d608f646>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4e0\n    [<0000000067828cf1>] do_init_module+0x1cc/0x6a0\n    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