When calling soc_device_match() from early_initcall(), bus_kset is still NULL, causing a crash: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000028 ... Call trace: __lock_acquire+0x530/0x20f0 lock_acquire.part.0+0xc8/0x210 lock_acquire+0x64/0x80 _raw_spin_lock+0x4c/0x60 bus_to_subsys+0x24/0xac bus_for_each_dev+0x30/0xcc soc_device_match+0x4c/0xe0 r8a7795_sysc_init+0x18/0x60 rcar_sysc_pd_init+0xb0/0x33c do_one_initcall+0x128/0x2bc Before, bus_for_each_dev() handled this gracefully by checking that the back-pointer to the private structure was valid. Fix this by adding a NULL check for bus_kset to bus_to_subsys(). Fixes: 83b9148df2c95e23 ("driver core: bus: bus iterator cleanups") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c index cfe8615d5106f030..dd4b82d7510f68fb 100644 --- a/drivers/base/bus.c +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static struct subsys_private *bus_to_subsys(const struct bus_type *bus) struct subsys_private *sp = NULL; struct kobject *kobj; - if (!bus) + if (!bus || !bus_kset) return NULL; spin_lock(&bus_kset->list_lock); -- 2.34.1