The ACPI sysfs code will fail to initialize if acpi_kobj is NULL, together with some ACPI drivers. Follow the other firmware subsystems and bail out if the kobject cannot be registered. Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/bus.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c index 058910af82bc..c2ab2783303f 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c @@ -1446,8 +1446,10 @@ static int __init acpi_init(void) } acpi_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("acpi", firmware_kobj); - if (!acpi_kobj) - pr_debug("%s: kset create error\n", __func__); + if (!acpi_kobj) { + pr_err("Failed to register kobject\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } init_prmt(); acpi_init_pcc(); -- 2.39.5