On 12/22/2015 02:05 PM, Tomas Winkler wrote:


 > Do you see a situation where holding the lock between calls into the driver
 > might be a problem ?

I don't think u are holding the lock now in watchdog_unregister when 
WDOG_UNREGISTERED was dropped.

the lock is held while clearing the pointers:

        mutex_lock(&wd_data->lock);
        wd_data->wdd = NULL;
        wdd->wd_data = NULL;
        mutex_unlock(&wd_data->lock);

Guenter

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