[PATCH 3.5 03/64] watchdog: ts72xx_wdt: locking bug in ioctl

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Oct 28 14:47:22 UTC 2013


3.5.7.24 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

commit 8612ed0d97abcf1c016d34755b7cf2060de71963 upstream.

Calling the WDIOC_GETSTATUS & WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS and twice will cause a
interruptible deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim at iguana.be>
Cc: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c
index 8df050d..1c53745 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c
@@ -310,7 +310,8 @@ static long ts72xx_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 
 	case WDIOC_GETSTATUS:
 	case WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS:
-		return put_user(0, p);
+		error = put_user(0, p);
+		break;
 
 	case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
 		ts72xx_wdt_kick(wdt);
-- 
1.8.3.2





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