[PATCH 6.12 132/567] via_wdt: fix critical boot hang due to unnamed resource allocation

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:21:38Z

From: Li Qiang <liqiang01@kylinos.cn>

[ Upstream commit 7aa31ee9ec92915926e74731378c009c9cc04928 ]

The VIA watchdog driver uses allocate_resource() to reserve a MMIO
region for the watchdog control register. However, the allocated
resource was not given a name, which causes the kernel resource tree
to contain an entry marked as "<BAD>" under /proc/iomem on x86
platforms.

During boot, this unnamed resource can lead to a critical hang because
subsequent resource lookups and conflict checks fail to handle the
invalid entry properly.

Signed-off-by: Li Qiang <liqiang01@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c
index eeb39f96e72e..c1ed3ce153cf 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/via_wdt.c
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ static int wdt_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot enable PCI device\n");
return -ENODEV;
}
+ wdt_res.name = "via_wdt";

/*
* Allocate a MMIO region which contains watchdog control register
--
2.51.0