From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit bc137dfdbec2 (watchdog: gpio_wdt: set WDOG_HW_RUNNING in gpio_wdt_stop)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:47:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180213154722.GC14300@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34efe5b3-954c-9c22-470f-9f9706a8a363@prevas.dk>
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:56:02PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Hi stable maintainers
>
> Can I get you to consider including
>
> bc137dfdbec2 watchdog: gpio_wdt: set WDOG_HW_RUNNING in gpio_wdt_stop
>
> in -stable? Without that, any (always-running) gpio watchdog effectively
> fails to honour the magic close feature, causing an unexpected reset
> shortly after userspace gracefully closes the device.
>
> Anything containing 3c10bbde10 ("watchdog: core: Clear WDOG_HW_RUNNING
> before calling the stop function") probably needs it (i.e. 4.8+), but at
> the very least 4.14 and 4.15.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2018-02-10 21:56 Commit bc137dfdbec2 (watchdog: gpio_wdt: set WDOG_HW_RUNNING in gpio_wdt_stop) Rasmus Villemoes
2018-02-13 15:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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