diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index 17741969026e..26cfac3e6de7 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(int event_cpu, void **pages,
 	if (!sink_ops(sink)->alloc_buffer)
 		goto err;
 
+	cpu = cpumask_first(mask);
 	/* Get the AUX specific data from the sink buffer */
 	event_data->snk_config =
 			sink_ops(sink)->alloc_buffer(sink, cpu, pages,