watchdog: Avoid kernel crash when disabling watchdog

In case you boot with the watchdog disabled, i.e., nowatchdog, then,
if you try to disable it via /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog, you get
a kernel crash. The reason is that you are trying to cancel a hrtimer
which has never been initialized.

This patch fixes this by skipping execution of
watchdog_disable_all_cpus() when the watchdog is marked
disabled from boot.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4c8f7a23.cae9d80a.2c11.0bb4@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index fa71aebda4ff..89eadbb9cefe 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@ static void watchdog_disable_all_cpus(void)
 {
         int cpu;
 
+        if (no_watchdog)
+                return;
+
         for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
                 watchdog_disable(cpu);