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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: imx: error out on negative timeouts
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 12:04:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150202110432.GA12209@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150202104957.GA10842@pengutronix.de>

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:49:57AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:41:01PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > I'm not sure where a negative timeout could come from but making the
> > code more robust for no additional runtime cost is good nevertheless.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/watchdog/imxwd.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/imxwd.c b/drivers/watchdog/imxwd.c
> > index 31c3d0d85353..66e9f6848f74 100644
> > --- a/drivers/watchdog/imxwd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/imxwd.c
> > @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static int imx21_watchdog_set_timeout(struct imx_wd *priv, int timeout)
> >  
> >  	dev_dbg(priv->dev, "%s: %d\n", __func__, timeout);
> >  
> > -	if (!timeout || timeout > 128)
> > +	if (timeout <= 0 || timeout > 128)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> This patch is broken because reset_cpu (in the same source file) calls
> set_timeout with timeout=-1 to reset the cpu immediatly. The wd command
> only parses non-negative values, so from there nothing strange should be
> expected.
> 
> Returning -EINVAL on timeout=0 (which means "disable watchdog") is OK
> because the imx21 watchdog cannot be stopped.
> 
> So in short: please drop this patch from next.

Did that.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-27 13:41 Uwe Kleine-König
2015-01-28  9:15 ` Sascha Hauer
2015-02-02 10:49 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-02-02 11:04   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2015-02-02 11:50     ` Masahiro Yamada
2015-02-02 12:16       ` Sascha Hauer
2015-02-03  6:14         ` Masahiro Yamada
2015-02-03  7:44           ` Sascha Hauer

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