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CVE-2026-99024NVD

Vulnerability Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized

optee_probe() called tee_device_register() on both the client and the
supplicant device before the rest of struct optee had been initialized.

tee_device_register() calls cdev_device_add(), which does two things at
once: it creates /dev/tee0 and /dev/teepriv0, and it links the device
into the tee class so that class_find_device() can find it. From that
moment on the device is reachable both from user space via tee_open()
and from kernel space via tee_client_open_context(). The only gate in
teedev_open() is tee_device_get(), which merely checks that
teedev->desc is non-NULL, which was already set by tee_device_alloc().
Therefore, there is effectively no gate at all.

A context opened in that window can run against a struct optee where

- optee->call_queue.mutex is not initialized by optee_cq_init()
- optee->supp mutex and completions is not initialized by
optee_supp_init()
- optee->rpmb_dev_mutex is not initialized yet,
- the message argument cache is not initialized by
optee_shm_arg_cache_init()
- optee->ctx is still NULL

Any open session or invoke during this window takes uninitialized
mutexes and dereferences a NULL pointer.

Fix it by moving both tee_device_register() calls down to the point
where all of struct optee is set up.

[JW: adding fixes and cc]
Severity Level
UNKNOWN
Published Date
Oct 23, 2026
Last Modified
Oct 30, 2026
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation yet
EPSS Score (30-Day)
0.18%Probability
Root Weakness (CWE)
N/A

Affected & Patched Versions

Affected Versions
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Patched Versions
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