From: Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com>

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.boss...@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.boss...@linux.intel.com>
Diagnosed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <raf...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com>
Cc: All applicable <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 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) {


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