From 1598bfa8e1faa932de42e1ee7628a1c4c4263f0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jorge Lopez Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:55:27 -0500 Subject: platform/x86: hp_wmi: Fix rfkill causing soft blocked wifi After upgrading BIOS to U82 01.02.01 Rev.A, the console is flooded strange char "^@" which printed out every second and makes login nearly impossible. Also the below messages were shown both in console and journal/dmesg every second: usb 1-3: Device not responding to setup address. usb 1-3: device not accepting address 4, error -71 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/all, error -71 usb usb1-port3: unable to enumerate USB device Wifi is soft blocked by checking rfkill. When unblocked manually, after few seconds it would be soft blocked again. So I was suspecting something triggered rfkill to soft block wifi. At the end it was fixed by removing hp_wmi module. The root cause is the way hp-wmi driver handles command 1B on post-2009 BIOS. In pre-2009 BIOS, command 1Bh return 0x4 to indicate that BIOS no longer controls the power for the wireless devices. Signed-off-by: Jorge Lopez Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216468 Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028155527.7724-1-jorge.lopez2@hp.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede --- drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c index 627a6d0eaf83..12449038bed1 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c @@ -1300,8 +1300,16 @@ static int __init hp_wmi_bios_setup(struct platform_device *device) wwan_rfkill = NULL; rfkill2_count = 0; - if (hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device)) - hp_wmi_rfkill2_setup(device); + /* + * In pre-2009 BIOS, command 1Bh return 0x4 to indicate that + * BIOS no longer controls the power for the wireless + * devices. All features supported by this command will no + * longer be supported. + */ + if (!hp_wmi_bios_2009_later()) { + if (hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device)) + hp_wmi_rfkill2_setup(device); + } err = hp_wmi_hwmon_init(); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b