CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53696
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-28
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one()
There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffffc900003f0000 (size 12288):
comm "modprobe", pid 19117, jiffies 4299751452 (age 42490.264s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000629261a8>] __vmalloc_node_range+0xe56/0x1110
[<0000000001906886>] __vmalloc_node+0xbd/0x150
[<000000005bb4dc34>] vmalloc+0x25/0x30
[<00000000a2dc1194>] qla2x00_create_host+0x7a0/0xe30 [qla2xxx]
[<0000000062b14b47>] qla2x00_probe_one+0x2eb8/0xd160 [qla2xxx]
[<00000000641ccc04>] local_pci_probe+0xeb/0x1a0
The root cause is traced to an error-handling path in qla2x00_probe_one()
when the adapter "base_vha" initialize failed. The fab_scan_rp "scan.l" is
used to record the port information and it is allocated in
qla2x00_create_host(). However, it is not released in the error handling
path "probe_failed".
Fix this by freeing the memory of "scan.l" when an error occurs in the
adapter initialization process.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44374911ac63f769c442f56fdfadea673c5f4425 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/582e35e97318ccd9c81774bac08938291679525f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85ade4010e13ef152ea925c74d94253db92e5428 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae73c4dd48f2c79d515d509a0cbe9efb0a197f44 git.kernel.org