diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
index b0f3d8ecd898..7b26b6ccf1a0 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static int wmi_dev_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *driver)
 	if (id == NULL)
 		return 0;
 
-	while (id->guid_string) {
+	while (*id->guid_string) {
 		uuid_le driver_guid;
 
 		if (WARN_ON(uuid_le_to_bin(id->guid_string, &driver_guid)))
diff --git a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h b/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
index f9bd2f34b99f..e44b90fa0aef 100644
--- a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
+++ b/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
@@ -779,4 +779,16 @@ struct typec_device_id {
 	kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
 };
 
+/* WMI */
+
+#define WMI_MODULE_PREFIX	"wmi:"
+
+/**
+ * struct wmi_device_id - WMI device identifier
+ * @guid_string: 36 char string of the form fa50ff2b-f2e8-45de-83fa-65417f2f49ba
+ */
+struct wmi_device_id {
+	const char guid_string[UUID_STRING_LEN+1];
+};
+
 #endif /* LINUX_MOD_DEVICETABLE_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/wmi.h b/include/linux/wmi.h
index 4757cb5077e5..592f81afecbb 100644
--- a/include/linux/wmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/wmi.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/acpi.h>
+#include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/wmi.h>
 
 struct wmi_device {
@@ -39,10 +40,6 @@ extern union acpi_object *wmidev_block_query(struct wmi_device *wdev,
 
 extern int set_required_buffer_size(struct wmi_device *wdev, u64 length);
 
-struct wmi_device_id {
-	const char *guid_string;
-};
-
 struct wmi_driver {
 	struct device_driver driver;
 	const struct wmi_device_id *id_table;
diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
index afe22af20d7d..4e4f03a12cc0 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ typedef unsigned char	__u8;
 typedef struct {
 	__u8 b[16];
 } uuid_le;
+#define	UUID_STRING_LEN		36
 
 /* Big exception to the "don't include kernel headers into userspace, which
  * even potentially has different endianness and word sizes, since