From 71233e2541a4f8fcbce05f76679a0a380b3159ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:17:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: Fix kref imbalance seen if handle_boot_enabled=0 [ Upstream commit 914d65f3f013ba2556c7beec5d3baac7b3292504 ] If handle_boot_enabled is set to 0, the watchdog driver module use counter will not be increased and kref_get() will not be called when registering the watchdog. Subsequently, on open, this does not happen either because the code believes that it was already done because the hardware watchdog is marked as running. We could introduce a state variable to indicate this state, but let's just increase the module use counter and call kref_get() unconditionally if the hardware watchdog is running when a driver is registering itself to keep the code simple. Fixes: 2501b015313fe ("watchdog: core: add option to avoid early ...") Cc: Sebastian Reichel Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c index e6edf3737ea7..b30fb637ae94 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c @@ -966,14 +966,13 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd, dev_t devno) * and schedule an immediate ping. */ if (watchdog_hw_running(wdd)) { - if (handle_boot_enabled) { - __module_get(wdd->ops->owner); - kref_get(&wd_data->kref); + __module_get(wdd->ops->owner); + kref_get(&wd_data->kref); + if (handle_boot_enabled) queue_delayed_work(watchdog_wq, &wd_data->work, 0); - } else { + else pr_info("watchdog%d running and kernel based pre-userspace handler disabled\n", - wdd->id); - } + wdd->id); } return 0;