Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes

[Pali RohÃr]

Thanks for testing! It took too long, but bugs in vendor SMM code are 
hard to detect and probably impossible to fix. So I would call this 
patch just as "workaround" and not proper bug fix...

On Saturday 18 June 2016 23:58:19 Leon Yu wrote:
> Just installed on "Inspiron 580", appears to have fixed the problem.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On 06/18/2016 08:26 AM, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> >> On Saturday 18 June 2016 17:13:59 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>> On 06/17/2016 03:54 PM, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> >>>> I'm sending all my dell-smm-hwmon patches in one series, because
> >>>> due to changes in code other patches depends on previous.
> >>>> 
> >>>> First two patches fixes problem with old /proc/i8k file. Second
> >>>> is security fix and should be backported to all stable kernels
> >>>> (that problem was there always). I tested i8kctl tool (from
> >>>> i8kutils package) that it still works with these patches.
> >>>> Without root access for those security operations just showes
> >>>> '?' or '-1'.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Third and fourth patches try to fix problem on machines with
> >>>> broken SMM/BIOS when calling function fan_type().
> >>>> 
> >>>> Fifth is new feature and last sixth useful for debugging.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Pali RohÃr (6):
> >>>>     hwmon: (dell-smm) Fail in ioctl I8K_BIOS_VERSION when bios
> >>>>     version is
> >>>>     
> >>>>       not a number
> >>>>     
> >>>>     hwmon: (dell-smm) Restrict fan control and serial number to
> >>>>     
> >>>>       CAP_SYS_ADMIN by default
> >>>>     
> >>>>     hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken
> >>>>     machines hwmon: (dell-smm) Cache fan_type() calls and
> >>>>     change fan detection hwmon: (dell-smm) Detect fan with
> >>>>     index=2 hwmon: (dell-smm) In debug mode log duration of SMM
> >>>>     calls
> >>>>    
> >>>>    drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c |  122
> >>>>    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 99
> >>>>    insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >>> 
> >>> Pali,
> >>> 
> >>> You asked for additional testing, so I am not sure what you
> >>> expect me to do.
> >>> 
> >>> Which of the patches can/should I apply now ?
> >>> 
> >>> Guenter
> >> 
> >> Test 3/6 and 4/6 patches on affected Dell machines. I CCed all
> >> people who tried to debug those bugs, so need confirmation from
> >> them that after applying 3/6 and 4/6 patches, erratic fan
> >> behaviour is not there...
> >> 
> >> But because those two patches depends on previous, it is needed to
> >> test whole series...
> >> 
> >> This doesn't tell me which patches to apply now. The first two ?
> > 
> > Guenter

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Pali RohÃr
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

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