diff --git a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lpc.c b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lpc.c
index 2e4dba724ada50..7fc8f82280ac83 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lpc.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lpc.c
@@ -557,7 +557,12 @@ static struct platform_driver cros_ec_lpc_driver = {
 		.name = DRV_NAME,
 		.acpi_match_table = cros_ec_lpc_acpi_device_ids,
 		.pm = &cros_ec_lpc_pm_ops,
-		.probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
+		/*
+		 * ACPI child devices may probe before us, and they racily
+		 * check our drvdata pointer. Force synchronous probe until
+		 * those races are resolved.
+		 */
+		.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS,
 	},
 	.probe = cros_ec_lpc_probe,
 	.remove = cros_ec_lpc_remove,