linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 2/2] scsi: ufs: Add support for critical health notification

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID:
 <BL0PR04MB6564CE4996D99B8566F27E0CFCF52@BL0PR04MB6564.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 17:25:53 +0000
From: Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@....com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, "Martin K . Petersen"
	<martin.petersen@...cle.com>
CC: "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Bart Van
 Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] scsi: ufs: Add support for critical health
 notification

> On 2/3/25 07:27, Avri Altman wrote:
> > The UFS 4.1 standard, released on January 8, 2025, introduces several
> > new features, including a new exception event: HEALTH_CRITICAL. This
> > event notifies the host of a device's critical health condition,
> > indicating that the device is approaching the end of its lifetime
> > based on the number of program/erase cycles performed.
> >
> > We utilize the hwmon (hardware monitoring) subsystem to propagate this
> > information via the chip alarm channel.
> >
> 
> That is outside the scope of the hardware monitoring subsystem, the
> "alarms" attribute is deprecated and must not be used in new drivers, and it
> isn't actually implemented by this code.
OK.  Thanks for letting me know.
Do you see any other path I can take within the hwmon,
To let the upper stack / HAL know that the ufs device is reaching its EOL ?
Or should I look elsewhere?

Thanks,
Avri

> 
> I can't control what is submitted into the ufs code, bu from hardware
> monitoring perspective this is a NACK.
> 
> Guenter