In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tpm: use try_get_ops() in tpm-space.c
As part of the series conversion to remove nested TPM operations:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
exposure of the chip->tpm_mutex was removed from much of the upper
level code.  In this conversion, tpm2_del_space() was missed.  This
didn't matter much because it's usually called closely after a
converted operation, so there's only a very tiny race window where the
chip can be removed before the space flushing is done which causes a
NULL deref on the mutex.  However, there are reports of this window
being hit in practice, so fix this by converting tpm2_del_space() to
use tpm_try_get_ops(), which performs all the teardown checks before
acquring the mutex.
                
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: use try_get_ops() in tpm-space.c As part of the series conversion to remove nested TPM operations: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ exposure of the chip->tpm_mutex was removed from much of the upper level code. In this conversion, tpm2_del_space() was missed. This didn't matter much because it's usually called closely after a converted operation, so there's only a very tiny race window where the chip can be removed before the space flushing is done which causes a NULL deref on the mutex. However, there are reports of this window being hit in practice, so fix this by converting tpm2_del_space() to use tpm_try_get_ops(), which performs all the teardown checks before acquring the mutex. | |
| Title | tpm: use try_get_ops() in tpm-space.c | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2025-02-26T01:56:25.566Z
Updated: 2025-05-04T08:34:16.652Z
Reserved: 2025-02-26T01:49:39.302Z
Link: CVE-2022-49286
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Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-02-26T07:01:05.453
Modified: 2025-09-22T19:35:01.907
Link: CVE-2022-49286