The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime
of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net>
---
 Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 2 --
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c               | 8 ++++----
 drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c                | 9 ++++-----
 include/linux/watchdog.h                       | 2 --
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt 
b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
index 312f60009c3e..55120a055a14 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ The watchdog device structure looks like this:
 
 struct watchdog_device {
        int id;
-       struct device *dev;
        struct device *parent;
        const struct attribute_group **groups;
        const struct watchdog_info *info;
@@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ It contains following fields:
   /dev/watchdog0 cdev (dynamic major, minor 0) as well as the old
   /dev/watchdog miscdev. The id is set automatically when calling
   watchdog_register_device.
-* dev: device under the watchdog class (created by watchdog_register_device).
 * parent: set this to the parent device (or NULL) before calling
   watchdog_register_device.
 * groups: List of sysfs attribute groups to create when creating the watchdog
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
index ec1ab6c1a80b..e600fd93b7de 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
@@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct 
watchdog_device *wdd)
 
                ret = register_reboot_notifier(&wdd->reboot_nb);
                if (ret) {
-                       dev_err(wdd->dev, "Cannot register reboot notifier 
(%d)\n",
-                               ret);
+                       pr_err("watchdog%d: Cannot register reboot notifier 
(%d)\n",
+                              wdd->id, ret);
                        watchdog_dev_unregister(wdd);
                        ida_simple_remove(&watchdog_ida, wdd->id);
                        return ret;
@@ -262,8 +262,8 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct 
watchdog_device *wdd)
 
                ret = register_restart_handler(&wdd->restart_nb);
                if (ret)
-                       dev_warn(wdd->dev, "Cannot register restart handler 
(%d)\n",
-                                ret);
+                       pr_warn("watchog%d: Cannot register restart handler 
(%d)\n",
+                               wdd->id, ret);
        }
 
        return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index e89ccb2e9603..ba2ecce4aae6 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ static int watchdog_stop(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
                return 0;
 
        if (test_bit(WDOG_NO_WAY_OUT, &wdd->status)) {
-               dev_info(wdd->dev, "nowayout prevents watchdog being 
stopped!\n");
+               pr_info("watchdog%d: nowayout prevents watchdog being 
stopped!\n",
+                       wdd->id);
                return -EBUSY;
        }
 
@@ -604,7 +605,7 @@ static int watchdog_release(struct inode *inode, struct 
file *file)
 
        /* If the watchdog was not stopped, send a keepalive ping */
        if (err < 0) {
-               dev_crit(wdd->dev, "watchdog did not stop!\n");
+               pr_crit("watchdog%d: watchdog did not stop!\n", wdd->id);
                watchdog_ping(wdd);
        }
 
@@ -751,7 +752,6 @@ int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
                watchdog_cdev_unregister(wdd);
                return PTR_ERR(dev);
        }
-       wdd->dev = dev;
 
        return ret;
 }
@@ -766,8 +766,7 @@ int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 
 void watchdog_dev_unregister(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
 {
-       device_destroy(&watchdog_class, wdd->dev->devt);
-       wdd->dev = NULL;
+       device_destroy(&watchdog_class, wdd->wd_data->cdev.dev);
        watchdog_cdev_unregister(wdd);
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
index 2a68370411a9..1fb11c5a49c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
+++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops {
 /** struct watchdog_device - The structure that defines a watchdog device
  *
  * @id:                The watchdog's ID. (Allocated by 
watchdog_register_device)
- * @dev:       The device for our watchdog
  * @parent:    The parent bus device
  * @groups:    List of sysfs attribute groups to create when creating the
  *             watchdog device.
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops {
  */
 struct watchdog_device {
        int id;
-       struct device *dev;
        struct device *parent;
        const struct attribute_group **groups;
        const struct watchdog_info *info;
-- 
2.1.4

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