Bug 2525489 (CVE-2026-80623) - CVE-2026-80623 kernel: coresight: ete: Always save state on power down
Summary: CVE-2026-80623 kernel: coresight: ete: Always save state on power down
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80623
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-28 07:47 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-31 15:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 07:47:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

coresight: ete: Always save state on power down

System register ETMs and ETE are unlikely to be preserved on CPU power
down. The ETE DT binding also never documented
"arm,coresight-loses-context-with-cpu" so nobody would have legitimately
been able to use that binding to fix it and ACPI has no such binding at
all.

Fix it by hard coding the setting for sysreg ETMs (ETE is always sysreg)
or ACPI boots. Use a local variable when setting up save_state so that
it's immune to concurrent probing when devices have different
configurations which is an issue with modifying the global.

This fixes the following error when using Coresight with ACPI on the FVP
which supports CPU PM:

  coresight ete0: External agent took claim tag
  WARNING: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c:248 at coresight_disclaim_device_unlocked+0xe0/0xe8, CPU#0: perf/117


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