CVE-2025-40060 (GCVE-0-2025-40060)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-28 11:48
Modified
2025-10-28 11:48
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Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524
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