From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Jiqi Li" <lijq9@lenovo.com>, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] hwmon: Add driver for the NCT6801D EC sensor window
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:50:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-212637@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261113102544.893158-2-lijq9@lenovo.com>
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 3 potential
issues to consider:
- [Medium] hwmon: lenovo-shm-sensors: lenovo_shm_init() ignores probe
failure and DMI
- [Medium] hwmon: lenovo-shm-sensors: unchecked chip ID and 0xffffffff
base in probe
- [Low] hwmon: lenovo-shm-sensors: missing Documentation/hwmon/ driver
doc
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commit 9f416da4c0f5af4f99bd963bf60bcd4e26a13658
Author: Jiqi Li <lijq9@lenovo.com>
hwmon: Add driver for the NCT6801D EC sensor window
This commit adds the lenovo-shm-sensors hwmon driver to read fan and
temperature sensors published in an EC shared-memory window on supported
Lenovo systems.
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> index 8d397fa089fac..d020a2a25b98d 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
> @@ -1100,6 +1100,24 @@ config SENSORS_LENOVO_EC
> This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
> will be called lenovo_ec_sensors.
>
> +config SENSORS_LENOVO_SHM
> + tristate "Sensor reader for Lenovo EC sensor windows"
[Severity: Low]
This adds a new hwmon driver without corresponding documentation in
Documentation/hwmon/lenovo-shm-sensors.rst as required by
Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches.rst.
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/lenovo-shm-sensors.c b/drivers/hwmon/lenovo-shm-sensors.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..0aaf27eade57d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lenovo-shm-sensors.c
[ ... ]
> +static phys_addr_t lenovo_shm_find_window(const struct lenovo_shm_layout *layout,
> + const struct lenovo_shm_chip **chip)
> +{
> + static const int ports[] = { SIO_PORT_2E, SIO_PORT_4E };
> + struct lenovo_shm_data probe = { .layout = layout };
> + u32 bases[ARRAY_SIZE(lenovo_shm_shaw_reg)];
> + phys_addr_t found = 0;
> + int p, i, n;
> +
> + for (p = 0; p < ARRAY_SIZE(ports) && !found; p++) {
> + const struct lenovo_shm_chip *c;
> + int port = ports[p];
> +
> + if (lenovo_shm_sio_enter(port))
> + continue;
> +
> + /*
> + * The chip ID is only used for the log message. DMI has
> + * already selected the layout and the window content check
> + * below is what guards against a wrong mapping, so an
> + * unexpected ID is not a reason to give up here.
> + */
> + c = lenovo_shm_identify(port);
> +
> + lenovo_shm_sio_select(port, SIO_LD_SHM);
> + n = 0;
> + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(lenovo_shm_shaw_reg); i++) {
> + u32 base = lenovo_shm_read_shaw(port, lenovo_shm_shaw_reg[i]);
> +
> + /*
> + * SHAWnBA_3-0 == 0 means the window is disabled
> + * (Datasheet 5.3.3). The Core side WIN_BASEn
> + * register has its own disabled marker, but it is
> + * not reachable from the host, so the only further
> + * check available here is the content check below.
> + */
> + if (base)
> + bases[n++] = base;
> + }
> + lenovo_shm_sio_exit(port);
> +
> + /* Validate outside the configuration-region lock. */
> + for (i = 0; i < n && !found; i++) {
> + /*
> + * Claim the window only for the content check and drop
> + * it again right after; probe takes a devm-managed claim
> + * for the lifetime of the device.
> + */
> + if (!request_mem_region(bases[i], SHM_SIZE, DRVNAME))
> + continue;
> + probe.regs = ioremap(bases[i], SHM_SIZE);
> + if (probe.regs && lenovo_shm_window_valid(&probe)) {
[Severity: Medium]
Does lenovo_shm_find_window() end up modifying LDN selection on other
Super-I/O chips and mapping 0xffffffff when a probed port does not match
lenovo_shm_identify()?
Because lenovo_shm_find_window() does not skip the port when c is NULL and
only checks if (base) is non-zero, an unpopulated port (or an unused SHAW
register) reading 0xff produces base == 0xffffffff, which is then passed to
request_mem_region() and ioremap(), while a different Super-I/O chip at 0x2e
has its LDN 0x0f selected and its registers treated as physical addresses to
map and read.
[ ... ]
> +static struct platform_driver lenovo_shm_driver = {
> + .driver = {
> + .name = DRVNAME,
> + },
> + .probe = lenovo_shm_probe,
> +};
> +
> +static struct platform_device *lenovo_shm_pdev;
> +
> +static int __init lenovo_shm_init(void)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + ret = platform_driver_register(&lenovo_shm_driver);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
> + lenovo_shm_pdev = platform_device_register_simple(DRVNAME, -1, NULL, 0);
> + if (IS_ERR(lenovo_shm_pdev)) {
> + ret = PTR_ERR(lenovo_shm_pdev);
> + platform_driver_unregister(&lenovo_shm_driver);
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
[Severity: Medium]
Does lenovo_shm_init() succeed and leave lenovo_shm_pdev and
lenovo_shm_driver registered even when DMI does not match or
lenovo_shm_probe() fails?
platform_device_register_simple() does not propagate errors from the driver's
.probe callback because __device_attach_driver() ignores probe failures on
the bus. When lenovo_shm_probe() returns -ENODEV on non-matching hardware or
-EBUSY when FAAS bit 3 is set, lenovo_shm_init() still returns 0, keeping the
module loaded and leaving an unbound platform device and driver registered.
Checking dmi_check_system() in lenovo_shm_init() and using
platform_create_bundle() (as in drivers/hwmon/lenovo-ec-sensors.c) would
propagate probe failures.
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Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261113102544.893158-2-lijq9@lenovo.com?part=1
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2026-11-13 10:25 [PATCH v2] hwmon: Add NCT6801D EC sensor support for Lenovo workstations Jiqi Li
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