Bug 2396498 (CVE-2023-53436)

Summary: CVE-2023-53436 kernel: scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 17:01:43 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails

If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs
be freed. As the comment of device_add() says, put_device() should be used
to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling
put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
Comment 1 Keith Grant 2025-09-18 20:14:53 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091858-CVE-2023-53436-d294@gregkh/T