The driver probes with the invalid timeout value when
'iTCO_wdt_set_timeout()' fails, as its return value is not checked. In
this case, when executing "wdctl", we may get:
Device: /dev/watchdog0
Timeout: 30 seconds
Timeleft: 613 seconds
The timeout value is the value of "heartbeat" or "WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT", and
the timeleft value is calculated from the register value we actually read
(0xffff) by masking with 0x3ff and converting ticks to seconds (* 6 / 10).
Add error handling to return the failure code if 'iTCO_wdt_set_timeout()'
fails, ensuring the driver probe fails and prevents invalid operation.
Signed-off-by: Ziyan Fu <fuzy5@lenovo.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704073518.7838-1-13281011316@163.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
/* Check that the heartbeat value is within it's range;
if not reset to the default */
if (iTCO_wdt_set_timeout(&p->wddev, heartbeat)) {
- iTCO_wdt_set_timeout(&p->wddev, WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
+ ret = iTCO_wdt_set_timeout(&p->wddev, WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to set watchdog timeout (%d)\n", WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
+ return ret;
+ }
dev_info(dev, "timeout value out of range, using %d\n",
WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
heartbeat = WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT;