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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] watchdog: core: don't try to stop device if not running
On 04/05/2013 08:34 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 06:09:44PM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote:
>> A watchdog device may be stopped from userspace using WDIOC_SETOPTIONS
>> ioctl and flag WDIOS_DISABLECARD. If the device is closed after this
>> operation, watchdog_release() is called and status bits checked for
>> stopping it. Besides, if the device has not been unregistered a critical
>> message "watchdog did not stop!" is printed, although the ioctl may have
>> successfully stopped it already.
>>
>> Without the patch a user application sample code like this will successfully
>> stop the watchdog, but the kernel will output the message
>> "watchdog did not stop!":
>>
>> wd_fd = open("/dev/watchdog", O_RDWR);
>>
>> flags = WDIOS_DISABLECARD;
>> ioctl(wd_fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags);
>>
>> close(wd_fd);
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
>
> How about the following patch instead ?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> index 08b48bb..9775e8d 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> @@ -469,7 +469,9 @@ static int watchdog_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> * or if WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE is not set. If nowayout was set then
> * watchdog_stop will fail.
> */
> - if (test_and_clear_bit(WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE, &wdd->status) ||
> + if (!test_bit(WDOG_ACTIVE, &wdd->status))
> + err = 0;
> + else if (test_and_clear_bit(WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE, &wdd->status) ||
> !(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE))
> err = watchdog_stop(wdd);
>
> Much less invasive and the result is the same.

I like the simplicity but it is kind of inverted logic to initially define err =
-EBUSY only to turn it to zero later, so I'm rebuilding your approach like this:

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index ef8edec..a4163cd 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -463,16 +463,19 @@ out:
static int watchdog_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct watchdog_device *wdd = file->private_data;
- int err = -EBUSY;
+ int err = 0;

/*
* We only stop the watchdog if we received the magic character
* or if WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE is not set. If nowayout was set then
* watchdog_stop will fail.
*/
- if (test_and_clear_bit(WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE, &wdd->status) ||
- !(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE))
+ if (test_bit(WDOG_ACTIVE, &wdd->status))
+ err = -EBUSY;
+ else if (test_and_clear_bit(WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE, &wdd->status) ||
+ !(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_MAGICCLOSE)) {
err = watchdog_stop(wdd);
+ }

/* If the watchdog was not stopped, send a keepalive ping */

which makes the code more readable.
Thanks,
--
Héctor Palacios
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