Re: [PATCH 7/7] hwmon: (dell-smm) Reword and mark parameter "force" as unsafe

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 08:11:13PM +0100, Armin Wolf wrote:
> When enabling said module parameter, the driver ignores
> all feature blacklists on relevant models, which has the
> potential for strange side effects. Also there seems to
> be a slight chance for unsupported devices to behave
> badly when probed for features.
> In such cases, the kernel should be tainted to inform
> people that these issues might have been caused by
> the dell_smm_hwmon driver with "force" enabled.
> Also reword the parameter description to remind users
> that enabling "force" also enables blacklisted features.
> 
> Tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>

Applied to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.30.2
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> index 04a41d59da60..67d63932b48a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_ALIAS("i8k");
> 
>  static bool force;
> -module_param(force, bool, 0);
> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(force, "Force loading without checking for supported models");
> +module_param_unsafe(force, bool, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(force, "Force loading without checking for supported models and features");
> 
>  static bool ignore_dmi;
>  module_param(ignore_dmi, bool, 0);