CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40060
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/296da78494633e1ab5e2e74173a9c8683b04aa6b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a55c161f7f9c1aa1c70611b39830d51c83ef36d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9768536f82600a05ce901e31ccfabd92c027ff71 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cef047e0a55cb07906fcaae99170f19a9c0bb6c2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f505a165f1c7cd37b4cb6952042a5984693a4067 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe53a726d5edf864e80b490780cc135fc1adece9 git.kernel.org