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watchdog: Ensure that wdd is not dereferenced if NULL
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Wed, 9 Mar 2016 02:46:13 +0000 (18:46 -0800)
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:11:50 +0000 (21:11 +0100)
commitb981317243cf8381c288f00e4de1eddef471039c
tree841d94b53efd656fef958538bee429f6c1c379de
parent41819aa6048d1b4d194969ac7525f20923ac287e
watchdog: Ensure that wdd is not dereferenced if NULL

Smatch rightfully complains that wdd is dereferenced in the watchdog
release function after being checked for NULL. Also make sure that it
is not accessed outside mutex protection to avoid use-after-free problems.

Fixes: e6c71e84e4c0 ("watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c