ASUS | 'ERROR: Could not execute SMI.'

[Ricky-Tigg]

Hardware: ASUS computer; Boot mode: UEFI; OS: Fedora; Component: smbios-utils-python-2.4.3-2.fc34.x86_64

• Preamble: Known mitigations:

  $ lscpu | grep -E 'Mallinimi|CPU family|^Model name|Mitigation'
  CPU family:                      6
  Model name:                      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
  Vulnerability Itlb multihit:     KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
  Vulnerability L1tf:              Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Vulnerability Mds:               Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Vulnerability Meltdown:          Mitigation; PTI
  Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Vulnerability Spectre v1:        Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Vulnerability Spectre v2:        Mitigation; Full generic retpoline, IBPB conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP conditional, RSB filling
  Vulnerability Srbds:             Mitigation; Microcode

  Description:

  $ dnf info smbios-utils-python | grep ^Description
  Description  : Get BIOS information, such as System product name, product id, service tag and

• Subject Hello. From that description I could conceive that its function smbios-battery-ctl is eligible to be run in systems which are not from Dell. No option covering SMM or SMI present via BIOS utility. Following prerequisite is met: module dcdbas installed.

# smbios-battery-ctl -c
(...)
ERROR: Could not execute SMI.