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

Message ID 1382971703-17393-4-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques Oct. 28, 2013, 2:47 p.m. UTC 
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@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@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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 drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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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);