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From: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
To: naveenkrishna.chatradhi@amd.com, hansg@kernel.org,
	ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: carlos.bilbao@kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Reject negative power cap writes in hwmon
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:30:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260812090012.140193-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com> (raw)

hsmp_hwmon_write() takes the user-supplied hwmon value as a signed long
and assigns "val / MICROWATT_PER_MILLIWATT" to msg.args[0], which is a
__u32.  MICROWATT_PER_MILLIWATT is an unsigned long, so a negative write
to power1_cap (e.g. "echo -1 > power1_cap") is first converted to a huge
unsigned value by the division and then stored into the u32 argument.

As a result a nonsensical, multi-gigawatt socket power limit is sent to
the SMU via HSMP_SET_SOCKET_POWER_LIMIT instead of the write being
rejected.

Reject negative values with -EINVAL before the conversion.

Tested with HSMP enabled:

  CAP=$(dirname $(grep -l amd_hsmp_hwmon \
        /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/name | head -1))/power1_cap

  # negative write
  echo -1000000 > $CAP ; echo "ret=$?"
  # valid positive write must still work
  echo 400000000 > $CAP ; echo "ret=$?"

Before:
  # echo -1000000 > $CAP ; echo "ret=$?"
  ret=0                             <- accepted; bogus limit sent to SMU
  # echo 400000000 > $CAP ; echo "ret=$?"
  ret=0

After:
  # echo -1000000 > $CAP ; echo "ret=$?"
  bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  ret=1                             <- rejected with -EINVAL
  # echo 400000000 > $CAP ; echo "ret=$?"
  ret=0                             <- valid write still works

Fixes: 92c025db52bb ("platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Report power via hwmon sensors")
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/hwmon.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/hwmon.c b/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/hwmon.c
index 0cc9a742497f..c8314eee06f4 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/hwmon.c
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ static int hsmp_hwmon_write(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
 	if (attr != hwmon_power_cap)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
+	if (val < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	msg.num_args = 1;
 	msg.args[0] = val / MICROWATT_PER_MILLIWATT;
 	msg.msg_id = HSMP_SET_SOCKET_POWER_LIMIT;
-- 
2.43.7


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-12  9:00 Hemanth Selam [this message]
2026-08-18 14:07 ` Ilpo Järvinen

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