Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) fix EC read intervals

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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [High] Unconditional advancement of the update timestamp masks hardware read errors, causing silent propagation of stale or uninitialized data to userspace.
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--- Patch [1]: [PATCH] hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) fix EC read intervals ---
commit 6080114048f396c35a55a9a09a1833289acbf3be
Author: Eugene Shalygin <eugene.shalygin@gmail.com>

hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) fix EC read intervals

This commit updates the driver to take INITIAL_JIFFIES into account when
setting up the next update time. It changes the last_updated tracker to a
next_update timestamp and advances it by HZ prior to performing hardware
sensor reads.

> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/asus-ec-sensors.c b/drivers/hwmon/asus-ec-sensors.c
> index 29a23484cbe7b..4746c3718664b 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/asus-ec-sensors.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/asus-ec-sensors.c

[ ... ]

> @@ -1278,13 +1278,12 @@ static int get_cached_value_or_update(const struct device *dev,
>  				      int sensor_index,
>  				      struct ec_sensors_data *state, s32 *value)
>  {
> -	if (time_after(jiffies, state->last_updated + HZ)) {
> +	if (time_after64(get_jiffies_64(), state->next_update)) {
> +		state->next_update = get_jiffies_64() + HZ;
>  		if (update_ec_sensors(dev, state)) {

[Severity: High]
Does unconditional advancement of state->next_update before verifying the
hardware read succeeded cause stale data to be reported to userspace?

If update_ec_sensors() fails (for example, due to ACPI mutex contention
returning -EBUSY), the timestamp remains advanced. Any subsequent attribute
reads within the 1-second timeout window will bypass the update check.

These subsequent reads will successfully return uninitialized (zero) or stale
cached_value data with a return code of 0, potentially disrupting thermal
management policies.

>  			dev_err(dev, "update_ec_sensors() failure\n");
>  			return -EIO;
>  		}
> -
> -		state->last_updated = jiffies;
>  	}
>  
>  	*value = state->sensors[sensor_index].cached_value;

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