4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> commit 98529b9272e06a7767034fb8a32e43cdecda240a upstream. Commit 2a5708409e4e (ACPI / EC: Fix a gap that ECDT EC cannot handle EC events) introduced acpi_ec_ecdt_start(), but that function is invoked before acpi_ec_query_init(), which is too early. This causes the kernel to crash if an EC event occurs after boot, when ec_query_wq is not valid: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000102 ... Workqueue: events acpi_ec_event_handler task: ffff9f539790dac0 task.stack: ffffb437c0e10000 RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0x32/0x430 Normally, the DSDT EC should always be valid, so acpi_ec_ecdt_start() is actually a no-op in the majority of cases. However, commit c712bb58d827 (ACPI / EC: Add support to skip boot stage DSDT probe) caused the probing of the DSDT EC as the "boot EC" to be skipped when the ECDT EC is valid and uncovered the bug. Fix this issue by invoking acpi_ec_ecdt_start() after acpi_ec_query_init() in acpi_ec_init(). Link: https://jira01.devtools.intel.com/browse/LCK-4348 Fixes: 2a5708409e4e (ACPI / EC: Fix a gap that ECDT EC cannot handle EC events) Fixes: c712bb58d827 (ACPI / EC: Add support to skip boot stage DSDT probe) Reported-by: Wang Wendy <wendy.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Feng Chenzhou <chenzhoux.feng@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> [ rjw: Changelog ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 17 +++++++---------- drivers/acpi/internal.h | 1 - drivers/acpi/scan.c | 1 - 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ error: * functioning ECDT EC first in order to handle the events. * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115021 */ -int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_start(void) +static int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_start(void) { acpi_handle handle; @@ -1906,20 +1906,17 @@ static inline void acpi_ec_query_exit(vo int __init acpi_ec_init(void) { int result; + int ecdt_fail, dsdt_fail; /* register workqueue for _Qxx evaluations */ result = acpi_ec_query_init(); if (result) - goto err_exit; - /* Now register the driver for the EC */ - result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_ec_driver); - if (result) - goto err_exit; + return result; -err_exit: - if (result) - acpi_ec_query_exit(); - return result; + /* Drivers must be started after acpi_ec_query_init() */ + ecdt_fail = acpi_ec_ecdt_start(); + dsdt_fail = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_ec_driver); + return ecdt_fail && dsdt_fail ? -ENODEV : 0; } /* EC driver currently not unloadable */ --- a/drivers/acpi/internal.h +++ b/drivers/acpi/internal.h @@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ typedef int (*acpi_ec_query_func) (void int acpi_ec_init(void); int acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void); int acpi_ec_dsdt_probe(void); -int acpi_ec_ecdt_start(void); void acpi_ec_block_transactions(void); void acpi_ec_unblock_transactions(void); int acpi_ec_add_query_handler(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 query_bit, --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c @@ -2085,7 +2085,6 @@ int __init acpi_scan_init(void) acpi_gpe_apply_masked_gpes(); acpi_update_all_gpes(); - acpi_ec_ecdt_start(); acpi_scan_initialized = true;