From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 78a18fec5258c8df9435399a1ea022d73d3eceb9 upstream. Set the acpi_device pointer which acpi_bus_get_device() returns-by- reference to NULL on errors. We've recently had 2 cases where callers of acpi_bus_get_device() did not properly error check the return value, so set the returned- by-reference acpi_device pointer to NULL, because at least some callers of acpi_bus_get_device() expect that to be done on errors. [ rjw: This issue was exposed by commit 71da201f38df ("ACPI: scan: Defer enumeration of devices with _DEP lists") which caused it to be much more likely to occur on some systems, but the real defect had been introduced by an earlier commit. ] Fixes: 40e7fcb19293 ("ACPI: Add _DEP support to fix battery issue on Asus T100TA") Fixes: bcfcd409d4db ("usb: split code locating ACPI companion into port and device") Reported-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Diagnosed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: All applicable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c @@ -586,6 +586,8 @@ static int acpi_get_device_data(acpi_han if (!device) return -EINVAL; + *device = NULL; + status = acpi_get_data_full(handle, acpi_scan_drop_device, (void **)device, callback); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !*device) {