[PATCH 2/2] scsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()

"Milan P. Gandhi" <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:03:44 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.linux.scsi,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
mpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr() increments the target device kref when it
returns a device. If a subsequent error triggers a goto out_fail after
the tgtdev reference is acquired, the reference is never released
because the out_fail path does not call mpi3mr_tgtdev_put(). This
prevents the target device structure from ever being freed.

Add a tgtdev put in the out_fail path, guarded by a NULL check since
tgtdev is only acquired for SAS_END_DEVICE types and the same cleanup
path is shared by earlier error cases where tgtdev is still NULL.

Fixes: e22bae30667a ("scsi: mpi3mr: Add expander devices to STL")
Signed-off-by: Milan P. Gandhi <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c b/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c
index ea2c04384a0e..232af978d737 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c
@@ -1507,6 +1507,8 @@ static struct mpi3mr_sas_port *mpi3mr_sas_port_add(struct mpi3mr_ioc *mrioc,
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(mr_sas_phy, next, &mr_sas_port->phy_list,
 	    port_siblings)
 		list_del(&mr_sas_phy->port_siblings);
+	if (tgtdev)
+		mpi3mr_tgtdev_put(tgtdev);
 	kfree(mr_sas_port);
 	return NULL;
 }
-- 
2.55.0