[PATCH 1/2] platform/surface: acpi-notify: Check ACPI companion before use
From: Linmao Li
Date: Sun Jul 05 2026 - 21:26:00 EST
Since every platform driver can be forced to match a device that doesn't
match its list of device IDs because of device_match_driver_override(),
platform drivers that rely on the existence of a device's ACPI companion
object should verify its presence.
san_probe() dereferences the result of ACPI_COMPANION() when installing
the GSBUS address space handler, so force-binding the driver to a device
without an ACPI companion leads to a NULL pointer dereference. The
dereference was introduced when the probe function was switched from
ACPI_HANDLE() to ACPI_COMPANION().
Check the ACPI companion against NULL and return -ENODEV when it is
missing, like commit e4865a56d013 ("ACPI: driver: Check ACPI_COMPANION()
against NULL during probe") does for the core ACPI platform drivers.
Fixes: a9e10e587304 ("ACPI: scan: Extend acpi_walk_dep_device_list()")
Signed-off-by: Linmao Li <lilinmao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c b/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c
index a9dcb0bbe90e..593a7aba6243 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c
@@ -777,12 +777,16 @@ static int san_consumer_links_setup(struct platform_device *pdev)
static int san_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
- struct acpi_device *san = ACPI_COMPANION(&pdev->dev);
struct ssam_controller *ctrl;
+ struct acpi_device *san;
struct san_data *data;
acpi_status astatus;
int status;
+ san = ACPI_COMPANION(&pdev->dev);
+ if (!san)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
ctrl = ssam_client_bind(&pdev->dev);
if (IS_ERR(ctrl))
return PTR_ERR(ctrl) == -ENODEV ? -EPROBE_DEFER : PTR_ERR(ctrl);
--
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