watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessary
Don't take any action on an unsuccessful write to /proc.
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-2-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index a06972d..cf0e09f 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -507,15 +507,19 @@
int proc_dowatchdog_enabled(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
- proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+ int ret;
- if (write) {
- if (watchdog_enabled)
- watchdog_enable_all_cpus();
- else
- watchdog_disable_all_cpus();
- }
- return 0;
+ ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+ if (ret || !write)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (watchdog_enabled)
+ watchdog_enable_all_cpus();
+ else
+ watchdog_disable_all_cpus();
+
+out:
+ return ret;
}
int proc_dowatchdog_thresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write,