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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-10-28 | Updated 2025-10-28 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 (git) before cef047e0a55cb07906fcaae99170f19a9c0bb6c2
affected

3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 (git) before fe53a726d5edf864e80b490780cc135fc1adece9
affected

3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 (git) before 9768536f82600a05ce901e31ccfabd92c027ff71
affected

3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 (git) before 296da78494633e1ab5e2e74173a9c8683b04aa6b
affected

3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 (git) before f505a165f1c7cd37b4cb6952042a5984693a4067
affected

3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 (git) before 8a55c161f7f9c1aa1c70611b39830d51c83ef36d
affected

Default status
affected

5.13
affected

Any version before 5.13
unaffected

5.15.195 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.156 (semver)
unaffected

6.6.112 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.53 (semver)
unaffected

6.17.3 (semver)
unaffected

6.18-rc1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/cef047e0a55cb07906fcaae99170f19a9c0bb6c2

git.kernel.org/...c/fe53a726d5edf864e80b490780cc135fc1adece9

git.kernel.org/...c/9768536f82600a05ce901e31ccfabd92c027ff71

git.kernel.org/...c/296da78494633e1ab5e2e74173a9c8683b04aa6b

git.kernel.org/...c/f505a165f1c7cd37b4cb6952042a5984693a4067

git.kernel.org/...c/8a55c161f7f9c1aa1c70611b39830d51c83ef36d

cve.org (CVE-2025-40060)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-40060)

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