Am 27.08.24 um 10:20 schrieb Ilpo Järvinen:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, Armin Wolf wrote:
The BIOS can choose to return no event data in response to a
WMI event, so the ACPI object passed to the WMI notify handler
can be NULL.
Check for such a situation and ignore the event in such a case.
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c b/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c
index 6892518d537c..d6bdad26feb1 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c
@@ -1628,6 +1628,9 @@ static void hp_wmi_notify(union acpi_object *wobj, void *context)
* HPBIOS_BIOSEvent instance.
*/
+ if (!wobj)
+ return;
+
I'm left to wonder why is this patch is not placed first? Can't this
happen regardless who gets the wobj? And in that case, should this have
a Fixes tag?
Good point, i will send a v2 series to correct this.
Thanks,
Armin Wolf
