# CVE-2021-46922: KEYS: trusted: Fix TPM reservation for seal/unseal

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.10.33, 5.11.17
- Published: 2024-02-27 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: from 5.10.20, fixed in 5.10.33; from 5.11.3, fixed in 5.11.17

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KEYS: trusted: Fix TPM reservation for seal/unseal The original patch 8c657a0590de ("KEYS: trusted: Reserve TPM for seal and unseal operations") was correct on the mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20210128235621.127925-4-jarkko@kernel.org/ But somehow got rebased so that the tpm_try_get_ops() in tpm2_seal_trusted() got lost. This causes an imbalanced put of the TPM ops and causes oopses on TIS based hardware. This fix puts back the lost tpm_try_get_ops()

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf84ef2dd2ccdcd8f2658476d34b51455f970ce4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39c8d760d44cb3fa0d67e8cd505df81cf4d80999
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d5171eab462a63e2fbebfccf6026e92be018f20

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