The softdog watchdog timer has a bug that can create an oops:
1. Load the module without the nowayout option.
2. Open the driver and close it without writing 'V' before close.
3. Unload the module. The timer will continue to run...
4. Oops happens when timer fires.
Reported Sun, 10 Oct 2004, by Michael Schierl <schierlm@gmx.de>
Fix is easy: always take a reference on the module on open.
Release it only when the device is closed and no timer is running.
Tested on 2.6.13-rc6 using the soft_noboot option. While the
timer is running and the device is closed, the module use count
stays at 1. After the timer fires, it drops to 0. Repeatedly
opening and closing the driver caused no problems. Please apply.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Attached patch removes #ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT mess duplicated in
almost every watchdog driver and replaces it with common define in
linux/watchdog.h.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/char/watchdog/softdog.c:94: too many arguments to function `emergency_restart'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If a watchdog driver has decided it is time to reboot the system
we know something is wrong and we are in interrupt context
so emergency_reboot() is what we want.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Chuck Ebbert