4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f16eb8a4b096514ac06fb25bf599dcc792899b3d upstream. If SSDT overlay is loaded via ConfigFS and then unloaded the device, we would like to have OF modalias for, already gone. Thus, acpi_get_name() returns no allocated buffer for such case and kernel crashes afterwards: ACPI: Host-directed Dynamic ACPI Table Unload ads7950 spi-PRP0001:00: Dropping the link to regulator.0 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] PGD 80000000070d6067 P4D 80000000070d6067 PUD 70d0067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 40 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Not tainted 5.0.0+ #96 Hardware name: Intel Corporation Merrifield/BODEGA BAY, BIOS 542 2015.01.21:18.19.48 Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_device_del_work_fn RIP: 0010:create_of_modalias.isra.1+0x4c/0x150 Code: 00 00 48 89 44 24 18 31 c0 48 8d 54 24 08 48 c7 44 24 10 00 00 00 00 48 c7 44 24 08 ff ff ff ff e8 7a b0 03 00 48 8b 4c 24 10 <0f> b6 01 84 c0 74 27 48 c7 c7 00 09 f4 a5 0f b6 f0 8d 50 20 f6 04 RSP: 0000:ffffa51040297c10 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000001001 RBX: 0000000000000785 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000001001 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffffa2163dc042e0 RBP: ffffa216062b1196 R08: 0000000000001001 R09: ffffa21639873000 R10: ffffffffa606761d R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffa21639873218 R13: ffffa2163deb5060 R14: ffffa216063d1010 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa2163e000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000007114000 CR4: 00000000001006f0 Call Trace: __acpi_device_uevent_modalias+0xb0/0x100 spi_uevent+0xd/0x40 ... In order to fix above let create_of_modalias() check the status returned by acpi_get_name() and bail out in case of failure. Fixes: 8765c5ba1949 ("ACPI / scan: Rework modalias creation when "compatible" is present") Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201381 Reported-by: Ferry Toth <fntoth@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ferry Toth<fntoth@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: 4.1+ <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.1+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c @@ -202,11 +202,15 @@ static int create_of_modalias(struct acp { struct acpi_buffer buf = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER }; const union acpi_object *of_compatible, *obj; + acpi_status status; int len, count; int i, nval; char *c; - acpi_get_name(acpi_dev->handle, ACPI_SINGLE_NAME, &buf); + status = acpi_get_name(acpi_dev->handle, ACPI_SINGLE_NAME, &buf); + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) + return -ENODEV; + /* DT strings are all in lower case */ for (c = buf.pointer; *c != '\0'; c++) *c = tolower(*c);