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Guenter Roeck authored
If a watchdog driver's open function sets WDOG_HW_RUNNING with the expectation that the watchdog can not be stopped, but then stops the watchdog anyway in its stop function, kref_get() wil not be called in watchdog_open(). If the watchdog then stops on close, WDOG_HW_RUNNING will be cleared and kref_put() will be called, causing a kref imbalance. As result the character device data structure will be released, which in turn will cause the system to crash on the next call to watchdog_open(). Fixes: ee142889 ("watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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