Commit fcf95670 authored by Hector Palacios's avatar Hector Palacios Committed by Wim Van Sebroeck

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: default avatarHector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
parent 5f314970
......@@ -469,7 +469,9 @@ 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) ||
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);
......
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