This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtc: ds1374: wdt: Fix stop/start ioctl always returning -EINVAL
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: rtc-ds1374-wdt-fix-stop-start-ioctl-always-returning-einval.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:57:32 CET 2018
From: Moritz Fischer mdf@kernel.org Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:05:12 -0700 Subject: rtc: ds1374: wdt: Fix stop/start ioctl always returning -EINVAL
From: Moritz Fischer mdf@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 538c08f4c89580fc644e2bc64e0a4b86c925da4e ]
The WDIOC_SETOPTIONS case in the watchdog ioctl would alwayss falls through to the -EINVAL case. This is wrong since thew watchdog does actually get stopped or started correctly.
Fixes: 920f91e50c5b ("drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1374.c: add watchdog support") Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer mdf@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1374.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1374.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1374.c @@ -548,14 +548,15 @@ static long ds1374_wdt_ioctl(struct file if (options & WDIOS_DISABLECARD) { pr_info("disable watchdog\n"); ds1374_wdt_disable(); + return 0; }
if (options & WDIOS_ENABLECARD) { pr_info("enable watchdog\n"); ds1374_wdt_settimeout(wdt_margin); ds1374_wdt_ping(); + return 0; } - return -EINVAL; } return -ENOTTY;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mdf@kernel.org are
queue-4.4/rtc-ds1374-wdt-fix-stop-start-ioctl-always-returning-einval.patch queue-4.4/rtc-ds1374-wdt-fix-issue-with-timeout-scaling-from-secs-to-wdt-ticks.patch