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CVE-2025-40060

kernel: coresight: trbe: Return NULL pointer for allocation failures

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Severity

Unknown

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Published · October 28, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

coresight: trbe: Return NULL pointer for allocation failures

When the TRBE driver fails to allocate a buffer, it currently returns the error code "-ENOMEM". However, the caller etm_setup_aux() only checks for a NULL pointer, so it misses the error. As a result, the driver continues and eventually causes a kernel panic.

Fix this by returning a NULL pointer from arm_trbe_alloc_buffer() on allocation failures. This allows that the callers can properly handle the failure.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified