Fan at full speed after suspend on ThinkPad X260 with kernel > 5.10

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If I boot with kernel 5.10.20, the fan stays quiet after suspend.

If I boot with any later kernel (I’ve tried 5.11 and 5.12), the fan runs at full speed after suspend. I then have to do a cold reboot to fix the problem with the fan.

I tried Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS and Arch Linux on the X260, same experience with kernel version and fan after suspend. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS works as expected (it’s on kernel 5.8 for now), but I prefer Fedora and new shiny things.

For the time being, I’ve followed these instructions to downgrade and lock the kernel.

I hope there’s something simple I can change to make this laptop more future-proof?

$ uname -a
Linux lenovo 5.10.20-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 4 13:18:27 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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WIth SELinux, it is possible to manipulate different capabilities, so as listed in SELinux Wiki → Navigation: AdvancedUsers → Object Classes and Permissions descriptions it shout be possible to block system suspension with the block_suspend permission.

So, this a feature that’s available on a Fedora machine. I believe there are other solutions, but haven’t tried any solution up to that point.

I’m not exactly sure which kernel supports and checks which permissions, but I have read something that not all kernels understand that permission yet.

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Thank you, but I do want my laptop to be able to susend, I just need it to control the fan speed as before the suspend.

I realise that the fan speed issue is just a symptom of something else going on with kernel version and the X260.

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I see. I’ve seen a couple of threads covering suspension, but I hadn’t the problem until now. Wish you good luck or good help or whatever.

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I ran lsmod booted into 5.10.20 and 5.12.8, and compared the results:

$ diff lsmod_5.10.20 lsmod_5.12.8 | grep acpi
< snd_soc_acpi_intel_match    45056  1 snd_soc_skl
> snd_soc_acpi_intel_match    49152  1 snd_soc_skl
> snd_intel_sdw_acpi     20480  1 snd_intel_dspcfg
< thinkpad_acpi         118784  0
< ledtrig_audio          16384  2 snd_hda_codec_generic,thinkpad_acpi
> thinkpad_acpi         122880  0
> platform_profile       16384  1 thinkpad_acpi
> ledtrig_audio          16384  2 snd_hda_codec_generic,thinkpad_acpi