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authorHector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>2013-04-08 17:06:32 +0200
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2013-07-11 21:14:39 +0200
commitfcf95670fd29359a382e0755e573b36076d6283e (patch)
treef529d381c5f34de259208c52de6dcbd079f2a19a /drivers
parent5f314970b25a6960dd056b0038ffc7b88dc2973e (diff)
watchdog: core: don't try to stop device if not running
A watchdog device may be stopped from userspace using WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl and flag WDIOS_DISABLECARD. If the device is closed after this operation, watchdog_release() is called and status bits checked for stopping it. Besides, if the device has not been unregistered a critical message "watchdog did not stop!" is printed, although the ioctl may have successfully stopped it already. Without the patch a user application sample code like this will successfully stop the watchdog, but the kernel will output the message "watchdog did not stop!": wd_fd = open("/dev/watchdog", O_RDWR); flags = WDIOS_DISABLECARD; ioctl(wd_fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags); close(wd_fd); Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index faf4e189fe42..6aaefbad303e 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -469,8 +469,10 @@ static int watchdog_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
* or if WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE is not set. If nowayout was set then
* watchdog_stop will fail.
*/
- if (test_and_clear_bit(WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE, &wdd->status) ||
- !(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE))
+ if (!test_bit(WDOG_ACTIVE, &wdd->status))
+ err = 0;
+ else if (test_and_clear_bit(WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE, &wdd->status) ||
+ !(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE))
err = watchdog_stop(wdd);
/* If the watchdog was not stopped, send a keepalive ping */