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authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2016-01-04 00:11:58 +0100
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2016-01-11 21:53:59 +0100
commit0254e953537c92df3e7d0176f401a211e944fd61 (patch)
treeeee8c9b7645c2add9f49c71d39b0e31950ac7efb /drivers/watchdog
parentwatchdog: ziirave: Use watchdog infrastructure to create sysfs attributes (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/watchdog')
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c9
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
index ec1ab6c1a80b..e600fd93b7de 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
@@ -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;
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index e89ccb2e9603..ba2ecce4aae6 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -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);
}