Patch "hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     hwmon-dell-smm-disallow-fan_type-calls-on-broken-machines.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:54:46 +0200
Subject: hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines
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From: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

commit 2744d2fde00dc8bcc3679eb72c81a63058e90faa upstream.

Some Dell machines have especially broken SMM or BIOS which cause that once
fan_type() is called then CPU fan speed going randomly up and down. And for
fixing this behaviour reboot is required.

So this patch creates fan_type blacklist of affected Dell machines and
disallow fan_type() call on them to prevent that erratic behaviour.

Old blacklist which disabled loading driver on some machines added in
commits a4b45b25f18d ("hwmon: (dell-smm) Blacklist Dell Studio XPS 8100")
and 6220f4ebd7b4 ("hwmon: (dell-smm) Blacklist Dell Studio XPS 8000") were
moved to FAN_TYPE blacklist.

Reported-by: Jan C Peters <jcpeters89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100121
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ static u32 i8k_hwmon_flags;
 static uint i8k_fan_mult = I8K_FAN_MULT;
 static uint i8k_pwm_mult;
 static uint i8k_fan_max = I8K_FAN_HIGH;
+static bool disallow_fan_type_call;
 
 #define I8K_HWMON_HAVE_TEMP1	(1 << 0)
 #define I8K_HWMON_HAVE_TEMP2	(1 << 1)
@@ -240,6 +241,9 @@ static int i8k_get_fan_type(int fan)
 {
 	struct smm_regs regs = { .eax = I8K_SMM_GET_FAN_TYPE, };
 
+	if (disallow_fan_type_call)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	regs.ebx = fan & 0xff;
 	return i8k_smm(&regs) ? : regs.eax & 0xff;
 }
@@ -721,6 +725,9 @@ static struct attribute *i8k_attrs[] = {
 static umode_t i8k_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
 			      int index)
 {
+	if (disallow_fan_type_call &&
+	    (index == 9 || index == 12))
+		return 0;
 	if (index >= 0 && index <= 1 &&
 	    !(i8k_hwmon_flags & I8K_HWMON_HAVE_TEMP1))
 		return 0;
@@ -932,12 +939,14 @@ static struct dmi_system_id i8k_dmi_tabl
 
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, i8k_dmi_table);
 
-static struct dmi_system_id i8k_blacklist_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
+/*
+ * On some machines once I8K_SMM_GET_FAN_TYPE is issued then CPU fan speed
+ * randomly going up and down due to bug in Dell SMM or BIOS. Here is blacklist
+ * of affected Dell machines for which we disallow I8K_SMM_GET_FAN_TYPE call.
+ * See bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100121
+ */
+static struct dmi_system_id i8k_blacklist_fan_type_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
 	{
-		/*
-		 * CPU fan speed going up and down on Dell Studio XPS 8000
-		 * for unknown reasons.
-		 */
 		.ident = "Dell Studio XPS 8000",
 		.matches = {
 			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
@@ -945,16 +954,19 @@ static struct dmi_system_id i8k_blacklis
 		},
 	},
 	{
-		/*
-		 * CPU fan speed going up and down on Dell Studio XPS 8100
-		 * for unknown reasons.
-		 */
 		.ident = "Dell Studio XPS 8100",
 		.matches = {
 			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
 			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Studio XPS 8100"),
 		},
 	},
+	{
+		.ident = "Dell Inspiron 580",
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Inspiron 580 "),
+		},
+	},
 	{ }
 };
 
@@ -969,8 +981,7 @@ static int __init i8k_probe(void)
 	/*
 	 * Get DMI information
 	 */
-	if (!dmi_check_system(i8k_dmi_table) ||
-	    dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_dmi_table)) {
+	if (!dmi_check_system(i8k_dmi_table)) {
 		if (!ignore_dmi && !force)
 			return -ENODEV;
 
@@ -981,6 +992,9 @@ static int __init i8k_probe(void)
 			i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_BIOS_VERSION));
 	}
 
+	if (dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_fan_type_dmi_table))
+		disallow_fan_type_call = true;
+
 	strlcpy(bios_version, i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_BIOS_VERSION),
 		sizeof(bios_version));
 	strlcpy(bios_machineid, i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_PRODUCT_SERIAL),


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pali.rohar@gmail.com are

queue-4.6/hwmon-dell-smm-disallow-fan_type-calls-on-broken-machines.patch
queue-4.6/hwmon-dell-smm-restrict-fan-control-and-serial-number-to-cap_sys_admin-by-default.patch
queue-4.6/hwmon-dell-smm-cache-fan_type-calls-and-change-fan-detection.patch