From: Kate Hsuan <hpa@redhat.com>
To: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kate Hsuan <hpa@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] acpi: battery: Sanitise model_number by dropping unprintable characters
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 15:07:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708070732.578046-1-hpa@redhat.com> (raw)
The battery Embedded Controller (EC) may return the model name with
trailing unprintable or non-ASCII characters. For example, on some systems:
$ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/model_name
LNV-5B10W51864��
Strip these unprintable characters to ensure the model_name attribute
contains a valid string. If left intact, these malformed strings prevent
udev rules and hwdb from matching the attribute correctly.
Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/work_items/345
Signed-off-by: Kate Hsuan <hpa@redhat.com>
---
drivers/acpi/battery.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
index f5e0eb299610..dea0c3cc5160 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "ACPI: battery: " fmt
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/dmi.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
@@ -194,6 +195,21 @@ static int acpi_battery_handle_discharging(struct acpi_battery *battery)
return POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS_DISCHARGING;
}
+static void acpi_battery_remove_special_chars(char *str)
+{
+ char *out = str;
+ unsigned int i = 0;
+
+ while (*str && i < MAX_STRING_LENGTH) {
+ unsigned char c = *str++;
+
+ if (isascii(c) && isprint(c))
+ *out++ = c;
+ i++;
+ }
+ *out = '\0';
+}
+
static int acpi_battery_get_property(struct power_supply *psy,
enum power_supply_property psp,
union power_supply_propval *val)
@@ -524,6 +540,9 @@ static int extract_battery_info(const int use_bix,
battery->capacity_now > battery->full_charge_capacity)
battery->capacity_now = battery->full_charge_capacity;
+ if (!result)
+ acpi_battery_remove_special_chars(battery->model_number);
+
return result;
}
--
2.55.0
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2026-07-08 7:07 Kate Hsuan [this message]
2026-07-09 13:38 ` [PATCH] acpi: battery: Sanitise model_number by dropping unprintable characters Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel)
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