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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)
downloadlinux-fcf95670fd29359a382e0755e573b36076d6283e.tar.gz
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 */