# CVE-2026-99024: optee: register TEE devices only once fully initialized

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108818, GHSA-QP8F-JJVM-547W
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.57, 7.2.11
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.12
- Kernel (Linux): from 4.12.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.113; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.57; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.11

## Description

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]

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8de131e1a2ab379641bb475f1bcb472a1a1d75df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db36c37a2c3f13d5fd0f1afd8e2391d6c50793e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b21a716ccab7fa42e8dfa3118000bc5274004ab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/262062c01f5a817104c88bf6eacb7c6ffdc7018d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cae1605be8a047ae3a62df07b9474d61462c4f6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/681adbc9c7a820279582a295e183fa6a1d1b4ec4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f7240f0a6fd83df274fc0a2abf0609b4e6bd388
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c108feca0a096f8db25d1b69130035025e9e936d

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