# CVE-2022-50727: scsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct\_device\_init()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-24 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.14

## Description

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

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/038359eeccffaf0de4c1c9c51ee19cc5649619a1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c6e6bb30229b1297ac0fd7ede2941d2322fc736
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7e96168a8ca3be96c4959475164bef31115f07e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb0cd225dd37df1f4a22e36dad59ff33178ecdfc

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