From 8612ed0d97abcf1c016d34755b7cf2060de71963 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:40:59 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: ts72xx_wdt: locking bug in ioctl Calling the WDIOC_GETSTATUS & WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS and twice will cause a interruptible deadlock. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck --- 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 42913f1..c9b0c62 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); -- 2.7.4