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CVE-2026-72082 (GCVE-0-2026-72082)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:52 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:07
VLAI
Title
scsi: elx: efct: Fix refcount leak in efct_hw_io_abort()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: elx: efct: Fix refcount leak in efct_hw_io_abort() When efct_hw_reqtag_alloc() fails in efct_hw_io_abort(), the error path returns -ENOSPC without releasing the reference obtained via kref_get_unless_zero() earlier in the function. All other error paths correctly drop the reference. This causes a permanent reference leak on the io_to_abort object. Additionally, the abort_in_progress flag is left set to true on this path, which means future abort attempts for the same I/O will immediately return -EINPROGRESS even though the abort was never submitted, effectively blocking recovery. Fix this by adding the missing kref_put() call and reset abort_in_progress to false, matching the cleanup done in the efct_hw_wq_write() failure path below.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 63de51327a64c74e85611a0161eaae71256a3b6d , < cf97ea7b164a1881c7219f5222219c9d0fac4204 (git)
Affected: 63de51327a64c74e85611a0161eaae71256a3b6d , < 1c6e186c722cfa9a58ebe841f91ab2ddf8570cc7 (git)
Affected: 63de51327a64c74e85611a0161eaae71256a3b6d , < 62cf39a9770a6f29df59fd0edb0a05234a8b07f2 (git)
Affected: 63de51327a64c74e85611a0161eaae71256a3b6d , < faa59add4808fbf92e7d15bfd8770d2682c2b953 (git)
Affected: 63de51327a64c74e85611a0161eaae71256a3b6d , < 9b871369cbb4532f6715e044d6b9c4ceb036e5b6 (git)
Affected: 63de51327a64c74e85611a0161eaae71256a3b6d , < 747eaead2db298abfda2aa505f6d03775b40fe5f (git)
Affected: 63de51327a64c74e85611a0161eaae71256a3b6d , < 2c007acf7b31c39c08ce4959451ad00b19be4c1f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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