Bug 2406769 (CVE-2025-40059)

Summary: CVE-2025-40059 kernel: coresight: Fix incorrect handling for return value of devm_kzalloc
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-28 12:04:29 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

coresight: Fix incorrect handling for return value of devm_kzalloc

The return value of devm_kzalloc could be an null pointer,
use "!desc.pdata" to fix incorrect handling return value
of devm_kzalloc.
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-28 18:04:22 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025102816-CVE-2025-40059-b463@gregkh/T