Re: [PATCH] watchdog: only run driver set_pretimeout op if device supports it

[Guenter Roeck]

On 6/26/21 4:47 PM, Curtis Klein wrote:
> Some watchdog devices might conditionally support pretimeouts (e.g. if
> an interrupt is exposed for the device) but some watchdog drivers might
> still define the set_pretimeout operation (e.g. the mtk_wdt driver) and
> indicate support at runtime through the WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT flag. If the
> kernel is compiled with CONFIG_WATCHDOG_HRTIMER_PRETIMEOUT enabled,
> watchdog_set_pretimeout would run the driver specific set_pretimeout
> even if WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT is not set which might have unintended
> consequences.
>
> So this change checks that the device flags and only runs the driver
> operation if pretimeouts are supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Curtis Klein <curtis.klein@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> index 3bab324..5bf795c 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static int watchdog_set_pretimeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
>   	if (watchdog_pretimeout_invalid(wdd, timeout))
>   		return -EINVAL;
>   
> -	if (wdd->ops->set_pretimeout)
> +	if (wdd->ops->set_pretimeout && (wdd->info->options & WDIOF_PRETIMEOUT))
>   		err = wdd->ops->set_pretimeout(wdd, timeout);
>   	else
>   		wdd->pretimeout = timeout;