watchdog: f71808e_wdt: Fix magic close handling
authorIgor Pylypiv <igor.pylypiv@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:59:12 +0000 (00:59 -0800)
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Sat, 3 Mar 2018 14:52:32 +0000 (15:52 +0100)
Watchdog close is "expected" when any byte is 'V' not just the last one.
Writing "V" to the device fails because the last byte is the end of string.

$ echo V > /dev/watchdog
f71808e_wdt: Unexpected close, not stopping watchdog!

Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv <igor.pylypiv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-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>
drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c

index e0678c14480f2c96619562e6c3d0098a0541189d..3a33c5344bd5eaaad338dd77e138b5610c35dc27 100644 (file)
@@ -566,7 +566,8 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
                                char c;
                                if (get_user(c, buf + i))
                                        return -EFAULT;
-                               expect_close = (c == 'V');
+                               if (c == 'V')
+                                       expect_close = true;
                        }
 
                        /* Properly order writes across fork()ed processes */