This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ACPICA: iasl: handle empty connection_node to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: acpica-iasl-handle-empty-connection_node.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit dfce9578db7b274d427b5db870db8ad1c0e90ee7 Author: Aleksandrs Vinarskis <alex.vinarskis@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Aug 11 23:33:44 2024 +0200 ACPICA: iasl: handle empty connection_node [ Upstream commit a0a2459b79414584af6c46dd8c6f866d8f1aa421 ] ACPICA commit 6c551e2c9487067d4b085333e7fe97e965a11625 Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/6c551e2c Signed-off-by: Aleksandrs Vinarskis <alex.vinarskis@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c index 08196fa17080e..82b1fa2d201fe 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exprep.c @@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ acpi_status acpi_ex_prep_field_value(struct acpi_create_field_info *info) if (info->connection_node) { second_desc = info->connection_node->object; + if (second_desc == NULL) { + break; + } if (!(second_desc->common.flags & AOPOBJ_DATA_VALID)) { status = acpi_ds_get_buffer_arguments(second_desc);