Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Filter out spurious keyboard backlight change events | From | Hans de Goede <> | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2018 12:11:24 +0100 |
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Hi,
On 05-01-18 12:07, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2018 12:40:04 Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote: >>> On some Dell XPS models WMI events of type 0x0000 reporting a keycode of >>> 0xe00c get reported when the brightness of the LCD panel changes. >>> >>> This leads to us reporting false-positive kbd_led change events to >>> userspace which in turn leads to the kbd backlight OSD showing when it >>> should not. >>> >>> We already read the current keyboard backlight brightness value when >>> reporting events because the led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed >>> API requires this. Compare this value to the last known value and filter >>> out duplicate events, fixing this. >>> >>> Note the fixed issue is esp. a problem on XPS models with an ambient light >>> sensor and automatic brightness adjustments turned on, this causes the kbd >>> backlight OSD to show all the time there. >>> >> >> Should it have Fixes tag? >> >> Pali, any comment on this? > > See comments below. If there are not any problems, add my: > Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> > >>> BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514969 >>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> >>> --- >>> drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- >>> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c >>> index cd4725e7e0b5..2ef3297a9efc 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c >>> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c >>> @@ -1133,6 +1133,7 @@ static u8 kbd_previous_mode_bit; >>> >>> static bool kbd_led_present; >>> static DEFINE_MUTEX(kbd_led_mutex); >>> +static enum led_brightness kbd_led_level; > > Introduction of cached state of brightness level in kernel driver can > lead to problem as userspace is able to change brightness (via direct > DELL SMM API) without notice of kernel. > > But now patches for new interaction with DELL SMM via WMI are in kernel > and there is explicit filter which blocks request for keyboard > backlight. So hopefully this would not be a problem anymore... (or > correct me if there still can be).
Right, as discussed previously now that we've kernel support for this userspace really should not be directly touching this.
>>> /* >>> * NOTE: there are three ways to set the keyboard backlight level. >>> @@ -1947,6 +1948,7 @@ static enum led_brightness kbd_led_level_get(struct led_classdev *led_cdev) >>> static int kbd_led_level_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, >>> enum led_brightness value) >>> { >>> + enum led_brightness new_value = value; >>> struct kbd_state state; >>> struct kbd_state new_state; >>> u16 num; >>> @@ -1976,6 +1978,9 @@ static int kbd_led_level_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, >>> } >>> >>> out: >>> + if (ret == 0) >>> + kbd_led_level = new_value; >>> + >>> mutex_unlock(&kbd_led_mutex); >>> return ret; >>> } >>> @@ -2003,6 +2008,9 @@ static int __init kbd_led_init(struct device *dev) >>> if (kbd_led.max_brightness) >>> kbd_led.max_brightness--; >>> } >>> + >>> + kbd_led_level = kbd_led_level_get(NULL); > > Technically, kbd_led_level_get() is API function for struct led_cdev and > therefore should take valid kbd_led, NULL there looks suspicious.
Right, but I did not want to pass in a non-registered led_cdev and since kbd_led_level_get() does not dereference the passed in led_cdev passing NULL seems the cleanest solution.
> But in > reality this function itself ignores it first parameter. Probably the > clean solution would be to have one private function for struct led_cdev > usage and one which get current level for all other cases. This looks > ugly too, so if somebody else would not come with better idea, let this > code as is.
Ack, lets keep this as in, as said it is not perfect but passing NULL is the cleanest solution.
Regards,
Hans
> >>> + >>> ret = led_classdev_register(dev, &kbd_led); >>> if (ret) >>> kbd_led_present = false; >>> @@ -2027,13 +2035,25 @@ static void kbd_led_exit(void) >>> static int dell_laptop_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, >>> unsigned long action, void *data) >>> { >>> + bool changed = false; >>> + enum led_brightness new_kbd_led_level; >>> + >>> switch (action) { >>> case DELL_LAPTOP_KBD_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_CHANGED: >>> if (!kbd_led_present) >>> break; >>> >>> - led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed(&kbd_led, >>> - kbd_led_level_get(&kbd_led)); >>> + mutex_lock(&kbd_led_mutex); >>> + new_kbd_led_level = kbd_led_level_get(&kbd_led); >>> + if (kbd_led_level != new_kbd_led_level) { >>> + kbd_led_level = new_kbd_led_level; >>> + changed = true; >>> + } >>> + mutex_unlock(&kbd_led_mutex); >>> + >>> + if (changed) >>> + led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed(&kbd_led, >>> + kbd_led_level); >>> break; >>> } >>> >>> -- >>> 2.14.3 >>> >> >> >> >
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