When booting with ACPI, the Geni Serial Engine is not set as the I2C/SPI parent and thus, the wrapper (parent device) is unassigned. This causes the kernel to crash with a null dereference error. Fixes: 8bc529b25354 ("soc: qcom: geni: Add support for ACPI") Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Since we are already at -rc7 this patch should be processed ASAP - thank you. drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c index d5cf953b4337..7d622ea1274e 100644 --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c @@ -630,6 +630,9 @@ int geni_se_tx_dma_prep(struct geni_se *se, void *buf, size_t len, struct geni_wrapper *wrapper = se->wrapper; u32 val; + if (!wrapper) + return -EINVAL; + *iova = dma_map_single(wrapper->dev, buf, len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); if (dma_mapping_error(wrapper->dev, *iova)) return -EIO; @@ -663,6 +666,9 @@ int geni_se_rx_dma_prep(struct geni_se *se, void *buf, size_t len, struct geni_wrapper *wrapper = se->wrapper; u32 val; + if (!wrapper) + return -EINVAL; + *iova = dma_map_single(wrapper->dev, buf, len, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); if (dma_mapping_error(wrapper->dev, *iova)) return -EIO; -- 2.17.1