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-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c b/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
index bd0fc67e804b..fa0728232e71 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
@@ -768,6 +768,7 @@ leave:
static int watchdog_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
struct fschmd_data *pos, *data = NULL;
+ int watchdog_is_open;
/* We get called from drivers/char/misc.c with misc_mtx hold, and we
call misc_register() from fschmd_probe() with watchdog_data_mutex
@@ -782,10 +783,12 @@ static int watchdog_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
}
}
/* Note we can never not have found data, so we don't check for this */
- kref_get(&data->kref);
+ watchdog_is_open = test_and_set_bit(0, &data->watchdog_is_open);
+ if (!watchdog_is_open)
+ kref_get(&data->kref);
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_data_mutex);
- if (test_and_set_bit(0, &data->watchdog_is_open))
+ if (watchdog_is_open)
return -EBUSY;
/* Start the watchdog */