[PATCH 1/1] platform/x86: hp-wmi: fix platform profile issues on generic HP laptops

From: Marco Scardovi

Date: Fri Jun 19 2026 - 18:10:25 EST


On generic (non-Omen/non-Victus) HP laptops supported by the
hp-wmi driver, the platform_profile sysfs operations could fail,
leading to 'platform_profile: Failed to get profile for handler hp-wmi'
errors and preventing userspace power profile management from working
correctly.

The driver was blindly registering all 4 profiles (quiet, cool,
balanced, performance) without checking which ones were actually
supported by the BIOS. Furthermore, when userspace switched profiles,
hp_wmi_platform_profile_get() was called, which queried the BIOS
using thermal_profile_get(). If the BIOS query returned an error or
returned a value not in the recognized cases, the get call failed,
throwing an error.

Fix this by:
1. Dynamically probing which thermal profiles are supported by the BIOS
during driver registration by temporarily setting each profile and
checking the return code, then restoring the original profile.
2. Initializing and updating active_platform_profile to cache the
last set/boot profile.
3. Falling back to the cached active_platform_profile in
hp_wmi_platform_profile_get() if the BIOS query fails or returns
an invalid/unmapped value, rather than returning an error.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220008
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221569
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/a3b137df-1b21-4460-b003-58c5ca2d59d4@xxxxxx/
Fixes: 4296f679ca50 ("platform/x86: hp-wmi: add platform profile support")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.5-flash
Signed-off-by: Marco Scardovi <scardracs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c
index 8ba286ed8721..93df269445eb 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c
@@ -1662,8 +1662,11 @@ static int hp_wmi_platform_profile_get(struct device *dev,
int tp;

tp = thermal_profile_get();
- if (tp < 0)
- return tp;
+ if (tp < 0) {
+ guard(mutex)(&active_platform_profile_lock);
+ *profile = active_platform_profile;
+ return 0;
+ }

switch (tp) {
case HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE:
@@ -1679,7 +1682,9 @@ static int hp_wmi_platform_profile_get(struct device *dev,
*profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_QUIET;
break;
default:
- return -EINVAL;
+ guard(mutex)(&active_platform_profile_lock);
+ *profile = active_platform_profile;
+ break;
}

return 0;
@@ -1707,10 +1712,14 @@ static int hp_wmi_platform_profile_set(struct device *dev,
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}

+ guard(mutex)(&active_platform_profile_lock);
+
err = thermal_profile_set(tp);
if (err)
return err;

+ active_platform_profile = profile;
+
return 0;
}

@@ -2017,8 +2026,23 @@ static int hp_wmi_platform_profile_probe(void *drvdata, unsigned long *choices)
/* Adding an equivalent to HP Omen software ECO mode: */
set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_LOW_POWER, choices);
} else {
- set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_QUIET, choices);
- set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_COOL, choices);
+ int current_tp = thermal_profile_get();
+
+ if (current_tp < 0)
+ return current_tp;
+
+ if (thermal_profile_set(HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_QUIET) == 0)
+ set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_QUIET, choices);
+ if (thermal_profile_set(HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_COOL) == 0)
+ set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_COOL, choices);
+ if (thermal_profile_set(HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_DEFAULT) == 0)
+ set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_BALANCED, choices);
+ if (thermal_profile_set(HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE) == 0)
+ set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE, choices);
+
+ /* Restore the original thermal profile */
+ thermal_profile_set(current_tp);
+ return 0;
}

set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_BALANCED, choices);
@@ -2263,6 +2287,25 @@ static int thermal_profile_setup(struct platform_device *device)
if (err)
return err;

+ /* Initialize active_platform_profile */
+ switch (tp) {
+ case HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE:
+ active_platform_profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE;
+ break;
+ case HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_DEFAULT:
+ active_platform_profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_BALANCED;
+ break;
+ case HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_COOL:
+ active_platform_profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_COOL;
+ break;
+ case HP_THERMAL_PROFILE_QUIET:
+ active_platform_profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_QUIET;
+ break;
+ default:
+ active_platform_profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_BALANCED;
+ break;
+ }
+
ops = &hp_wmi_platform_profile_ops;
}

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