Re: [PATCH] thermal: qcom-spmi-adc-tm5: fix all temperature reads failing with -EINVAL

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Fri,  7 Aug 2026 19:45:52 -0700
Paul Hollinsky <phollinsky@holtechnik.com> wrote:

> adc_tm5_get_temp() rejects any iio_read_channel_processed() return value
> that is not IIO_VAL_INT. Since commit bb21ee31f575 ("iio: Fix
> iio_multiply_value use in iio_read_channel_processed_scale"),
> iio_read_channel_processed() returns 0 on success, per its documented
> contract, instead of passing through the value type from the underlying
> read.
> 
> Since IIO_VAL_INT is 1, every successful read now takes the error path,
> so get_temp() returns -EINVAL unconditionally and every ADC-TM5 thermal
> zone is dead: with no valid temperature readings the core cannot
> evaluate trip points. Observed on a SC7180 Trogdor Chromebook (Lenovo
> IdeaPad Duet 3 / wormdingler), where the charger and skin-temp zones
> report an error on every read.
> 
> The check no longer serves its original defensive purpose either: since
> commit 05f958d003c9 ("iio: Improve iio_read_channel_processed_scale()
> precision"), fractional value types are folded into the integer result
> by iio_multiply_value() inside the IIO core, so the return value carries
> no information beyond success or failure. Just drop the check and rely
> on the ret < 0 test above it.
> 
> qcom-spmi-adc-tm5 is the only iio_read_channel_processed() consumer in
> tree still testing the return value this way.
> 
> Fixes: bb21ee31f575 ("iio: Fix iio_multiply_value use in iio_read_channel_processed_scale")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.18+
> Signed-off-by: Paul Hollinsky <phollinsky@holtechnik.com>

Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@oss.qualcomm.com> #from IIO
Sorry about this. I thought we'd checked all of them but seems some slipped through.

> ---
>  drivers/thermal/qcom/qcom-spmi-adc-tm5.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/qcom/qcom-spmi-adc-tm5.c b/drivers/thermal/qcom/qcom-spmi-adc-tm5.c
> index bb6222c8cc5f..af72db6299cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/qcom/qcom-spmi-adc-tm5.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/qcom/qcom-spmi-adc-tm5.c
> @@ -369,9 +369,6 @@ static int adc_tm5_get_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int *temp)
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
>  
> -	if (ret != IIO_VAL_INT)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
>  	return 0;
>  }
>