watchdog: core: propagate ping error code to the user space

Watchdog ping return errors are ignored by watchdog core,
Whatchdog daemon should be informed about possible hardware error or
underlaying device driver get unregistered.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 06171c73daf5584b3abb4193a85a1c9b13950767..56a649e66eb2461e70a2e073fe85284bf46933aa 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data,
        struct watchdog_device *wdd = file->private_data;
        size_t i;
        char c;
+       int err;
 
        if (len == 0)
                return 0;
@@ -313,7 +314,9 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data,
        }
 
        /* someone wrote to us, so we send the watchdog a keepalive ping */
-       watchdog_ping(wdd);
+       err = watchdog_ping(wdd);
+       if (err < 0)
+               return err;
 
        return len;
 }
@@ -369,8 +372,7 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
        case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
                if (!(wdd->info->options & WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING))
                        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-               watchdog_ping(wdd);
-               return 0;
+               return watchdog_ping(wdd);
        case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
                if (get_user(val, p))
                        return -EFAULT;
@@ -380,7 +382,9 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
                /* If the watchdog is active then we send a keepalive ping
                 * to make sure that the watchdog keep's running (and if
                 * possible that it takes the new timeout) */
-               watchdog_ping(wdd);
+               err = watchdog_ping(wdd);
+               if (err < 0)
+                       return err;
                /* Fall */
        case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
                /* timeout == 0 means that we don't know the timeout */