linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] watchdog: Start watchdog in watchdog_set_last_hw

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <93d56386-6e37-060b-55ce-84de8cde535f@web.de>
Date:   Sun, 1 Aug 2021 09:56:25 +0200
From:   Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Start watchdog in watchdog_set_last_hw_keepalive
 only if appropriate

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>

We must not pet a running watchdog when handle_boot_enabled is off
because this will kick off automatic triggering before userland is
running, defeating the purpose of the handle_boot_enabled control.
Furthermore, don't ping in case watchdog_set_last_hw_keepalive was
called incorrectly when the hardware watchdog is actually not running.

Fixed: cef9572e9af3 ("watchdog: add support for adjusting last known HW keepalive time")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
---

Changes to v1 ("watchdog: Respect handle_boot_enabled when setting last last_hw_keepalive"):
 - add watchdog_hw_running test
 - improve commit log

 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 3bab32485273..6c73160386b9 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -1172,7 +1172,10 @@ int watchdog_set_last_hw_keepalive(struct watchdog_device *wdd,

 	wd_data->last_hw_keepalive = ktime_sub(now, ms_to_ktime(last_ping_ms));

-	return __watchdog_ping(wdd);
+	if (watchdog_hw_running(wdd) && handle_boot_enabled)
+		return __watchdog_ping(wdd);
+
+	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(watchdog_set_last_hw_keepalive);

--
2.31.1