[PATCH 10/15] ACPI: CPPC: Reject reads and RMW of write-only controls

From: Christian Loehle

Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 07:27:49 EST


Between _CPC revision 3 and revision 4, Desired Performance changed from
Read/Write to Write. Revision 4 also added the write-only OSPM Nominal
Performance control. ACPI 6.6 section 4.6.3 says reads of write-only bit
positions produce undefined results.

The exported Desired Performance helper already rejects revision-4
readback, but the common register accessor still permits either write-only
control to be read. Reject both centrally so new callers cannot bypass the
revision rule.

A partial SystemMemory field would also make cpc_write() read its complete
access unit to preserve bits outside the field. Reject revision-4
descriptions of either write-only control when their geometry requires RMW.
A full-width description remains supported and is written without a
preceding read.

Fixes: 71e1815113f7 ("ACPI: CPPC: Add support for CPPC v4")
Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
index 2bb7d74fc8e7..14f672392433 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
@@ -333,6 +333,13 @@ static bool cpc_reg_is_writable(unsigned int reg_idx)
}
}

+static bool cpc_reg_is_write_only(const struct cpc_desc *cpc_desc,
+ unsigned int reg_idx)
+{
+ return cpc_desc->version >= CPPC_V4_REV &&
+ (reg_idx == DESIRED_PERF || reg_idx == OSPM_NOMINAL_PERF);
+}
+
static bool cpc_sysmem_reg_needs_rmw(const struct cpc_register_resource *reg)
{
const struct cpc_reg *gas = &reg->cpc_entry.reg;
@@ -363,6 +370,17 @@ static int cpc_validate_sysmem_reg(const struct cpc_desc *cpc_desc,
if (gas->address & (access_size - 1))
goto invalid;

+ if (cpc_reg_is_write_only(cpc_desc, reg_idx) &&
+ (gas->bit_offset || gas->bit_width != access_width)) {
+ const char *name = reg_idx == DESIRED_PERF ?
+ "Desired Performance" :
+ "OSPM Nominal Performance";
+
+ pr_err("CPU%d: _CPC v%d %s register requires unsupported read-modify-write\n",
+ cpc_desc->cpu_id, cpc_desc->version, name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
return 0;

invalid:
@@ -1737,6 +1755,8 @@ static int cppc_get_reg_val(int cpu, enum cppc_regs reg_idx, u64 *val)
pr_debug("No CPC descriptor for CPU:%d\n", cpu);
return -ENODEV;
}
+ if (cpc_reg_is_write_only(cpc_desc, reg_idx))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;

reg = &cpc_desc->cpc_regs[reg_idx];

--
2.34.1