Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] Input: Don't send fake button presses to wake system

From: Mario Limonciello
Date: Thu Jun 26 2025 - 14:43:19 EST


On 6/26/2025 1:37 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi Mario,

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 06:33:08AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:


On 6/26/25 3:35 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi Mario,

On 25-Jun-25 23:58, Mario Limonciello wrote:
From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>

Sending an input event to wake a system does wake it, but userspace picks
up the keypress and processes it. This isn't the intended behavior as it
causes a suspended system to wake up and then potentially turn off if
userspace is configured to turn off on power button presses.

Instead send a PM wakeup event for the PM core to handle waking the system.

Cc: Hans de Goede <hansg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 0f107573da417 ("Input: gpio_keys - handle the missing key press event in resume phase")
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c
index 773aa5294d269..4c6876b099c43 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c
@@ -420,12 +420,7 @@ static irqreturn_t gpio_keys_gpio_isr(int irq, void *dev_id)
pm_stay_awake(bdata->input->dev.parent);
if (bdata->suspended &&
(button->type == 0 || button->type == EV_KEY)) {
- /*
- * Simulate wakeup key press in case the key has
- * already released by the time we got interrupt
- * handler to run.
- */
- input_report_key(bdata->input, button->code, 1);
+ pm_wakeup_event(bdata->input->dev.parent, 0);
}
}

Hmm, we have the same problem on many Bay Trail / Cherry Trail
windows 8 / win10 tablets, so this has been discussed before and e.g.
Android userspace actually needs the button-press (evdev) event to not
immediately go back to sleep, so a similar patch has been nacked in
the past.

At least for GNOME this has been fixed in userspace by ignoring
power-button events the first few seconds after a resume from suspend.


The default behavior for logind is:

HandlePowerKey=poweroff

Right note poweroff not suspend, GNOME inhibits logind's power-button
handling and substitutes its own handling which is done by gsd-media-keys.

Can you share more about what version of GNOME has a workaround?
This was actually GNOME (on Ubuntu 24.04) that I found this issue.

See:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/blob/main/plugins/media-keys/gsd-media-keys-manager.c?ref_type=heads#L94

and the code in that file using that define.

Regards,

Hans


This is pretty ancient, it's part of GNOME 40 and later. Ubuntu 24.04 is GNOME 46.

I have a hypothesis why the issue is happening. I wasn't suspending using logind; I was using rtcwake (in case power button didn't work I needed a means to wake the system).

So this power button disable/enable delay code didn't get activated.