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    watchdog: gpio_wdt: set WDOG_HW_RUNNING in gpio_wdt_stop · fd7467f8
    Rasmus Villemoes authored
    commit bc137dfd upstream.
    
    The first patch above (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9970181/)
    makes the oops go away, but it just papers over the problem. The real
    problem is that the watchdog core clears WDOG_HW_RUNNING in
    watchdog_stop, and the gpio driver fails to set it in its stop
    function when it doesn't actually stop it. This means that the core
    doesn't know that it now has responsibility for petting the device, in
    turn causing the device to reset the system (I hadn't noticed this
    because the board I'm working on has that reset logic disabled).
    
    How about this (other drivers may of course have the same problem, I
    haven't checked). One might say that ->stop should return an error
    when the device can't be stopped, but OTOH this brings parity between
    a device without a ->stop method and a GPIO wd that has always-running
    set. IOW, I think ->stop should only return an error when an actual
    attempt to stop the hardware failed.
    
    From: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
    
    The watchdog framework clears WDOG_HW_RUNNING before calling
    ->stop. If the driver is unable to stop the device, it is supposed to
    set that bit again so that the watchdog core takes care of sending
    heart-beats while the device is not open from user-space. Update the
    gpio_wdt driver to honour that contract (and get rid of the redundant
    clearing of WDOG_HW_RUNNING).
    
    Fixes: 3c10bbde
    
     ("watchdog: core: Clear WDOG_HW_RUNNING before calling the stop function")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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