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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49287"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:56:26.059Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:54:36.034Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49287"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49287.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49287"
title: "tpm: fix reference counting for struct tpm_chip"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntpm: fix reference counting for struct tpm_chip\n\nThe following sequence of operations results in a refcount warning:\n\n1. Open device /dev/tpmrm.\n2. Remove module tpm_tis_spi.\n3. Write a TPM command to the file descriptor opened at step 1.\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1161 at lib/refcount.c:25 kobject_get+0xa0/0xa4\nrefcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.\nModules linked in: tpm_tis_spi tpm_tis_core tpm mdio_bcm_unimac brcmfmac\nsha256_generic libsha256 sha256_arm hci_uart btbcm bluetooth cfg80211 vc4\nbrcmutil ecdh_generic ecc snd_soc_core crc32_arm_ce libaes\nraspberrypi_hwmon ac97_bus snd_pcm_dmaengine bcm2711_thermal snd_pcm\nsnd_timer genet snd phy_generic soundcore [last unloaded: spi_bcm2835]\nCPU: 3 PID: 1161 Comm: hold_open Not tainted 5.10.0ls-main-dirty #2\nHardware name: BCM2711\n[\u003cc0410c3c\u003e] (unwind_backtrace) from [\u003cc040b580\u003e] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)\n[\u003cc040b580\u003e] (show_stack) from [\u003cc1092174\u003e] (dump_stack+0xc4/0xd8)\n[\u003cc1092174\u003e] (dump_stack) from [\u003cc0445a30\u003e] (__warn+0x104/0x108)\n[\u003cc0445a30\u003e] (__warn) from [\u003cc0445aa8\u003e] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x74/0xb8)\n[\u003cc0445aa8\u003e] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [\u003cc08435d0\u003e] (kobject_get+0xa0/0xa4)\n[\u003cc08435d0\u003e] (kobject_get) from [\u003cbf0a715c\u003e] (tpm_try_get_ops+0x14/0x54 [tpm])\n[\u003cbf0a715c\u003e] (tpm_try_get_ops [tpm]) from [\u003cbf0a7d6c\u003e] (tpm_common_write+0x38/0x60 [tpm])\n[\u003cbf0a7d6c\u003e] (tpm_common_write [tpm]) from [\u003cc05a7ac0\u003e] (vfs_write+0xc4/0x3c0)\n[\u003cc05a7ac0\u003e] (vfs_write) from [\u003cc05a7ee4\u003e] (ksys_write+0x58/0xcc)\n[\u003cc05a7ee4\u003e] (ksys_write) from [\u003cc04001a0\u003e] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x4c)\nException stack(0xc226bfa8 to 0xc226bff0)\nbfa0:                   00000000 000105b4 00000003 beafe664 00000014 00000000\nbfc0: 00000000 000105b4 000103f8 00000004 00000000 00000000 b6f9c000 beafe684\nbfe0: 0000006c beafe648 0001056c b6eb6944\n---[ end trace d4b8409def9b8b1f ]---\n\nThe reason for this warning is the attempt to get the chip-\u003edev reference\nin tpm_common_write() although the reference counter is already zero.\n\nSince commit 8979b02aaf1d (\"tpm: Fix reference count to main device\") the\nextra reference used to prevent a premature zero counter is never taken,\nbecause the required TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2 flag is never set.\n\nFix this by moving the TPM 2 character device handling from\ntpm_chip_alloc() to tpm_add_char_device() which is called at a later point\nin time when the flag has been set in case of TPM2.\n\nCommit fdc915f7f719 (\"tpm: expose spaces via a device link /dev/tpmrm\u003cn\u003e\")\nalready introduced function tpm_devs_release() to release the extra\nreference but did not implement the required put on chip-\u003edevs that results\nin the call of this function.\n\nFix this by putting chip-\u003edevs in tpm_chip_unregister().\n\nFinally move the new implementation for the TPM 2 handling into a new\nfunction to avoid multiple checks for the TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2 flag in the\ngood case and error cases."
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