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* [PATCH] watchdog: avoid kernel crash when disabling watchdog
@ 2010-09-14 13:34 Stephane Eranian
  2010-09-15 10:01 ` [tip:perf/core] watchdog: Avoid " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stephane Eranian @ 2010-09-14 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: peterz, mingo, paulus, davem, fweisbec, perfmon2-devel, eranian,
	eranian, robert.richter, dzickus

In case you boot with the watchdog disabled, i.e., nowatchdog, then,
if you try to disable it via /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog, you get
a kernel crash. The reason is that you are trying to cancel a hrtimer
which has never been initialized.

This patch fixes this by skipping execution of
watchdog_disable_all_cpus() when the watchdog is marked
disabled from boot.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
--
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 69a3d44..f335067 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@ static void watchdog_disable_all_cpus(void)
 {
 	int cpu;
 
+	if (no_watchdog)
+		return;
+
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		watchdog_disable(cpu);
 

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