diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache-flat.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache-flat.c
index 3ee72550b1e3b4ddc8cbaae9c89d0f39778da6d3..4d2e50bfc7263c689fd6e575850e5fbf4b517e1a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache-flat.c
+++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache-flat.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static int regcache_flat_init(struct regmap *map)
 	int i;
 	unsigned int *cache;
 
-	if (!map || map->reg_stride_order < 0)
+	if (!map || map->reg_stride_order < 0 || !map->max_register)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	map->cache = kcalloc(regcache_flat_get_index(map, map->max_register)
diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
index 4170b7d952767074140ce26c4c1ac621823607ad..df7ff72908216f5d7a97f03af3f06ae4fd5adefd 100644
--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
+++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regcache_mark_dirty);
  * regcache_cache_bypass: Put a register map into cache bypass mode
  *
  * @map: map to configure
- * @cache_bypass: flag if changes should not be written to the hardware
+ * @cache_bypass: flag if changes should not be written to the cache
  *
  * When a register map is marked with the cache bypass option, writes
  * to the register map API will only update the hardware and not the