Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: add NVME_QUIRK_NO_SECONDARY_TEMP_THRESH for WD SN740
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Nov 03 2026 - 03:03:46 EST
On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 12:05:13AM -0300, Robson Cassiano wrote:
> The WD SN740 (15b7:5017) reports two secondary temperature sensors in
> the SMART/Health log but returns the 0 and 0xffff (Kelvin) sentinels
> for their temperature thresholds. nvme-hwmon exposes those as
> temp2_min/max and temp3_min/max, producing -273.15 C and 65261.85 C in
> sysfs.
>
> Mark the controller with NVME_QUIRK_NO_SECONDARY_TEMP_THRESH so only
> the sensor inputs are exposed.
Given that this is an older device I suspect we're not going to
see firmware fixes for it. But given that we had quite a few devices
with issues like this, I wonder why nvme-hwmon can't detect these
obviously fake values instead and we could drop the quirk?
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Robson Cassiano <linux@robsoncassiano.software>
> ---
> Tested on the affected system, WD SN740 512 GB, firmware 73100004:
>
> # lspci -nn -s 01:00.0
> 01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Sandisk Corp WD SN560/SN740/SN770/SN5000 NVMe SSD [15b7:5017] (rev 01)
>
> Before, on 7.2.8:
>
> temp2_label Sensor 1
> temp2_input 53850
> temp2_min -273150
> temp2_max 65261850
> temp3_label Sensor 2
> temp3_input 38850
> temp3_min -273150
> temp3_max 65261850
>
> After, on 7.3.0 with this patch:
>
> temp1_label Composite
> temp1_input 45850
> temp1_min -40150
> temp1_max 83850
> temp1_crit 87850
> temp2_label Sensor 1
> temp2_input 59850
> temp3_label Sensor 2
> temp3_input 45850
>
> temp1_* are the Composite thresholds and stay exposed; the quirk only
> suppresses the secondary sensor thresholds.
>
> The quirk also covers the other models sharing 15b7:5017 (SN560, SN770,
> SN5000); only the SN740 was tested.
>
> OEM systems: Dell OptiPlex 3000, Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO 5 and Samsung
> NP750QFG-KS1BR (the test system).
>
> drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 77317e5..4f1f10b 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -4170,6 +4170,8 @@ static const struct pci_device_id nvme_id_table[] = {
> { PCI_DEVICE(0x15b7, 0x5009), /* Sandisk SN550 */
> .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_BROKEN_MSI |
> NVME_QUIRK_NO_DEEPEST_PS },
> + { PCI_DEVICE(0x15b7, 0x5017), /* Sandisk SN560/SN740/SN770/SN5000 */
> + .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_NO_SECONDARY_TEMP_THRESH, },
> { PCI_DEVICE(0x1987, 0x5012), /* Phison E12 */
> .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_BOGUS_NID, },
> { PCI_DEVICE(0x1987, 0x5016), /* Phison E16 */
> --
> 2.56.0
>
>
> base-commit: c03c1a14507dfaf8b856c2608f9ac216021fc222
>
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