Patch "watchdog: core: Clear WDOG_HW_RUNNING before calling the stop function" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

Patch "watchdog: core: Clear WDOG_HW_RUNNING before calling the stop function" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    watchdog: core: Clear WDOG_HW_RUNNING before calling the stop function

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     watchdog-core-clear-wdog_hw_running-before-calling-the-stop-function.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3c10bbde10fe4dca52726e246cefa6b0a1dfbd3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:21:56 -0700
Subject: watchdog: core: Clear WDOG_HW_RUNNING before calling the stop function

From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

commit 3c10bbde10fe4dca52726e246cefa6b0a1dfbd3e upstream.

WDOG_HW_RUNNING indicates that the hardware watchdog is running while the
watchdog device is closed. The flag may be set by the driver when it is
instantiated to indicate that the watchdog is running, and that the
watchdog core needs to send heartbeat requests to the driver until the
watchdog device is opened.

When the watchdog device is closed, the flag can be used by the driver's
stop function to indicate to the watchdog core that it was unable to stop
the watchdog, and that the watchdog core needs to send heartbeat requests.
This only works if the flag is actually cleared when the watchdog is
stopped. To avoid having to clear the flag in each driver's stop function,
clear it in the watchdog core before calling the stop function.

Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
Fixes: ee142889e32f ("watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -258,10 +258,12 @@ static int watchdog_stop(struct watchdog
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
-	if (wdd->ops->stop)
+	if (wdd->ops->stop) {
+		clear_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdd->status);
 		err = wdd->ops->stop(wdd);
-	else
+	} else {
 		set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdd->status);
+	}
 
 	if (err == 0) {
 		clear_bit(WDOG_ACTIVE, &wdd->status);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linux@roeck-us.net are

queue-4.7/watchdog-core-clear-wdog_hw_running-before-calling-the-stop-function.patch
queue-4.7/hwmon-adt7411-set-bit-3-in-cfg1-register.patch
queue-4.7/nvmem-declare-nvmem_cell_read-consistently.patch