Commit 7bd3e7b7 authored by Igor Pylypiv's avatar Igor Pylypiv Committed by Wim Van Sebroeck

watchdog: f71808e_wdt: Fix magic close handling

Watchdog close is "expected" when any byte is 'V' not just the last one.
Writing "V" to the device fails because the last byte is the end of string.

$ echo V > /dev/watchdog
f71808e_wdt: Unexpected close, not stopping watchdog!
Signed-off-by: default avatarIgor Pylypiv <igor.pylypiv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
parent a17f4f03
......@@ -566,7 +566,8 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
char c;
if (get_user(c, buf + i))
return -EFAULT;
expect_close = (c == 'V');
if (c == 'V')
expect_close = true;
}
/* Properly order writes across fork()ed processes */
......
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