Re: [PATCH] hwmon: drivetemp: Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur

From: Daniil Stas
Date: Mon Jan 06 2025 - 13:43:18 EST


On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 08:43:54 -0800
Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 09:36:18PM +0000, Daniil Stas wrote:
> > scsi_execute_cmd() function can return both negative (linux codes)
> > and positive (scsi_cmnd result field) error codes.
> >
> > Currently the driver just passes error codes of scsi_execute_cmd()
> > to hwmon core, which is incorrect because hwmon only checks for
> > negative error codes. This leads to hwmon reporting uninitialized
> > data to userspace in case of SCSI errors (for example if the disk
> > drive was disconnected).
> >
> > This patch checks scsi_execute_cmd() output and returns -EIO if it's
> > error code is positive.
> >
>
> Applied.
>
> Thanks,
> Guenter

Thanks!