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commit78a18fec52upstream. 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 commit71da201f38("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:40e7fcb192("ACPI: Add _DEP support to fix battery issue on Asus T100TA") Fixes:bcfcd409d4("usb: split code locating ACPI companion into port and device") Reported-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> Diagnosed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.