linux/drivers/thermal
Michael Brunner 0d288162f2 thermal_sys: check get_temp return value
The return value of the get_temp function is not checked when doing a
thermal zone update.  This may lead to a critical shutdown if get_temp
fails and the content of the temp variable is incorrectly set higher than
the critical trip point.

This has been observed on a system with incorrect ACPI implementation
where the corresponding methods were not serialized and therefore
sometimes triggered ACPI errors (AE_ALREADY_EXISTS).  The following
critical shutdowns indicated a temperature of 2097 C, which was obviously
wrong.

The patch adds a return value check that jumps over all trip point
evaluations printing a warning if get_temp fails.  The trip points are
evaluated again on the next polling interval with successful get_temp
execution.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <mibru@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
..
Kconfig thermal: Create CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=n 2008-06-25 19:25:42 -04:00
Makefile
thermal_sys.c thermal_sys: check get_temp return value 2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00