watchdog: ts72xx_wdt: locking bug in ioctl

Calling the WDIOC_GETSTATUS & WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS and twice will cause a interruptible deadlock. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
mariux64 · Oct 13, 2013 · 8612ed0 · 8612ed0
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diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c
@@ -310,7 +310,8 @@ static long ts72xx_wdt_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 
 	case WDIOC_GETSTATUS:
 	case WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS:
-		return put_user(0, p);
+		error = put_user(0, p);
+		break;
 
 	case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
 		ts72xx_wdt_kick(wdt);