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watchdog: f71808e_wdt: Fix magic close handling

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Watchdog close is "expected" when any byte is 'V' not just the last one.
Writing "V" to the device fails because the last byte is the end of string.

$ echo V > /dev/watchdog
f71808e_wdt: Unexpected close, not stopping watchdog!

Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv <igor.pylypiv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Igor Pylypiv 2018-02-28 00:59:12 -08:00 committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
parent a17f4f032b
commit 7bd3e7b743
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drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c
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@ -566,7 +566,8 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
char c;
if (get_user(c, buf + i))
return -EFAULT;
expect_close = (c == 'V');
if (c == 'V')
expect_close = true;
}
/* Properly order writes across fork()ed processes */