watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device
The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime
of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index e89ccb2..ba2ecce 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@
return 0;
if (test_bit(WDOG_NO_WAY_OUT, &wdd->status)) {
- dev_info(wdd->dev, "nowayout prevents watchdog being stopped!\n");
+ pr_info("watchdog%d: nowayout prevents watchdog being stopped!\n",
+ wdd->id);
return -EBUSY;
}
@@ -604,7 +605,7 @@
/* If the watchdog was not stopped, send a keepalive ping */
if (err < 0) {
- dev_crit(wdd->dev, "watchdog did not stop!\n");
+ pr_crit("watchdog%d: watchdog did not stop!\n", wdd->id);
watchdog_ping(wdd);
}
@@ -751,7 +752,6 @@
watchdog_cdev_unregister(wdd);
return PTR_ERR(dev);
}
- wdd->dev = dev;
return ret;
}
@@ -766,8 +766,7 @@
void watchdog_dev_unregister(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
{
- device_destroy(&watchdog_class, wdd->dev->devt);
- wdd->dev = NULL;
+ device_destroy(&watchdog_class, wdd->wd_data->cdev.dev);
watchdog_cdev_unregister(wdd);
}