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authorAlexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>2015-10-26 14:07:58 +0200
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2015-11-03 14:36:14 +0100
commit5ef796639c2cacaebc07cf7e63bd20d64f7b3cb0 (patch)
treef67a860621ae9c2aad11edfad02d70930f692404
parentbc794ac3b5836ee2b2420b0597f33538ad100be0 (diff)
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watchdog: core: propagate ping error code to the user space
Watchdog ping return errors are ignored by watchdog core, Whatchdog daemon should be informed about possible hardware error or underlaying device driver get unregistered. Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 06171c7..56a649e 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data,
struct watchdog_device *wdd = file->private_data;
size_t i;
char c;
+ int err;
if (len == 0)
return 0;
@@ -313,7 +314,9 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data,
}
/* someone wrote to us, so we send the watchdog a keepalive ping */
- watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ err = watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
return len;
}
@@ -369,8 +372,7 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
if (!(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- watchdog_ping(wdd);
- return 0;
+ return watchdog_ping(wdd);
case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
if (get_user(val, p))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -380,7 +382,9 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
/* If the watchdog is active then we send a keepalive ping
* to make sure that the watchdog keep's running (and if
* possible that it takes the new timeout) */
- watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ err = watchdog_ping(wdd);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
/* Fall */
case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
/* timeout == 0 means that we don't know the timeout */
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