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This\nprevents the target device structure from ever being freed.\n\nAdd a tgtdev put in the out_fail path, guarded by a NULL check since\ntgtdev is only acquired for SAS_END_DEVICE types and the same cleanup\npath is shared by earlier error cases where tgtdev is still NULL.","publishedAt":"2026-09-25T10:36:09.014Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T09:14:20.796Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3","status":"affected","lessThan":"60a9aaac07f6470b252c4de40e7d8a6e25004093","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3","status":"affected","lessThan":"58e3d2fbc8c914ed3dce2f7d915b3c4f4a3c76fb","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3","status":"affected","lessThan":"040146f81d099006a354b0caacc7f01ca00f257e","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3","status":"affected","lessThan":"06a7073b33b8f5cb0ee71e07dc669efffb1c7d58","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3","status":"affected","lessThan":"1ccbe8c42009706af79e6629c70d42fc929aef2b","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e22bae30667a7e74ed057e00fb6e8c79e0738de3","status":"affected","lessThan":"419d129f970aaa6567dbac366b0c93784bf9ec97","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"6.1","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60a9aaac07f6470b252c4de40e7d8a6e25004093","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58e3d2fbc8c914ed3dce2f7d915b3c4f4a3c76fb","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040146f81d099006a354b0caacc7f01ca00f257e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06a7073b33b8f5cb0ee71e07dc669efffb1c7d58","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ccbe8c42009706af79e6629c70d42fc929aef2b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419d129f970aaa6567dbac366b0c93784bf9ec97"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:13:43.249Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98128.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-98128","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-09-25T10:36:09.014Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-19T09:14:20.796Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2026-09-25T10:25:14.318Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"scsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()\n\nmpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr() increments the target device kref when it\nreturns a device. 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