diff --git a/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c b/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c
index 3d96e4da2d98..d00630016176 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/device_pm.c
@@ -1259,9 +1259,6 @@ int acpi_dev_pm_attach(struct device *dev, bool power_on)
 	if (!adev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	if (dev->pm_domain)
-		return -EEXIST;
-
 	/*
 	 * Only attach the power domain to the first device if the
 	 * companion is shared by multiple. This is to prevent doing power
diff --git a/drivers/base/power/common.c b/drivers/base/power/common.c
index f6a9ad52cbbf..f3cf61f58f25 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/common.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/common.c
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ int dev_pm_domain_attach(struct device *dev, bool power_on)
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	if (dev->pm_domain)
+		return -EEXIST;
+
 	ret = acpi_dev_pm_attach(dev, power_on);
 	if (ret)
 		ret = genpd_dev_pm_attach(dev);
diff --git a/drivers/base/power/domain.c b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
index d4b96edb027d..b816adbe1e62 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/domain.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
@@ -2194,9 +2194,6 @@ int genpd_dev_pm_attach(struct device *dev)
 	if (!dev->of_node)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	if (dev->pm_domain)
-		return -EEXIST;
-
 	ret = of_parse_phandle_with_args(dev->of_node, "power-domains",
 					"#power-domain-cells", 0, &pd_args);
 	if (ret < 0)