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watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device 

The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime
of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Guenter Roeck 2016-01-03 15:11:58 -08:00 committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
parent 2c2f3080de
commit 0254e95353
4 changed files with 8 additions and 13 deletions
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2
Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
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@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ The watchdog device structure looks like this:
struct watchdog_device {
int id;
struct device *dev;
struct device *parent;
const struct attribute_group **groups;
const struct watchdog_info *info;
@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ It contains following fields:
/dev/watchdog0 cdev (dynamic major, minor 0) as well as the old
/dev/watchdog miscdev. The id is set automatically when calling
watchdog_register_device.
* dev: device under the watchdog class (created by watchdog_register_device).
* parent: set this to the parent device (or NULL) before calling
watchdog_register_device.
* groups: List of sysfs attribute groups to create when creating the watchdog

8
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
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@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
ret = register_reboot_notifier(&wdd->reboot_nb);
if (ret) {
dev_err(wdd->dev, "Cannot register reboot notifier (%d)\n",
ret);
pr_err("watchdog%d: Cannot register reboot notifier (%d)\n",
wdd->id, ret);
watchdog_dev_unregister(wdd);
ida_simple_remove(&watchdog_ida, wdd->id);
return ret;
@ -262,8 +262,8 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
ret = register_restart_handler(&wdd->restart_nb);
if (ret)
dev_warn(wdd->dev, "Cannot register restart handler (%d)\n",
ret);
pr_warn("watchog%d: Cannot register restart handler (%d)\n",
wdd->id, ret);
}
return 0;

9
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
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@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ static int watchdog_stop(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
return 0;
if (test_bit(WDOG_NO_WAY_OUT, &wdd->status)) {
dev_info(wdd->dev, "nowayout prevents watchdog being stopped!\n");
pr_info("watchdog%d: nowayout prevents watchdog being stopped!\n",
wdd->id);
return -EBUSY;
}
@ -604,7 +605,7 @@ static int watchdog_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
/* If the watchdog was not stopped, send a keepalive ping */
if (err < 0) {
dev_crit(wdd->dev, "watchdog did not stop!\n");
pr_crit("watchdog%d: watchdog did not stop!\n", wdd->id);
watchdog_ping(wdd);
}
@ -751,7 +752,6 @@ int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
watchdog_cdev_unregister(wdd);
return PTR_ERR(dev);
}
wdd->dev = dev;
return ret;
}
@ -766,8 +766,7 @@ int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
void watchdog_dev_unregister(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
{
device_destroy(&watchdog_class, wdd->dev->devt);
wdd->dev = NULL;
device_destroy(&watchdog_class, wdd->wd_data->cdev.dev);
watchdog_cdev_unregister(wdd);
}

2
include/linux/watchdog.h
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@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops {
/** struct watchdog_device - The structure that defines a watchdog device
*
* @id: The watchdog's ID. (Allocated by watchdog_register_device)
* @dev: The device for our watchdog
* @parent: The parent bus device
* @groups: List of sysfs attribute groups to create when creating the
* watchdog device.
@ -82,7 +81,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops {
*/
struct watchdog_device {
int id;
struct device *dev;
struct device *parent;
const struct attribute_group **groups;
const struct watchdog_info *info;