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H A D | watchdog.c | 359e6fab Tue Sep 24 17:27:29 CDT 2013 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> watchdog: update watchdog attributes atomically
proc_dowatchdog doesn't synchronize multiple callers which might lead to confusion when two parallel callers might confuse watchdog_enable_all_cpus resp watchdog_disable_all_cpus (eg watchdog gets enabled even if watchdog_thresh was set to 0 already).
This patch adds a local mutex which synchronizes callers to the sysctl handler.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 359e6fab Tue Sep 24 17:27:29 CDT 2013 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> watchdog: update watchdog attributes atomically proc_dowatchdog doesn't synchronize multiple callers which might lead to confusion when two parallel callers might confuse watchdog_enable_all_cpus resp watchdog_disable_all_cpus (eg watchdog gets enabled even if watchdog_thresh was set to 0 already). This patch adds a local mutex which synchronizes callers to the sysctl handler. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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