[PATCH] watchdog: iTCO_wdt: Report error if timeout configuration fails

From: Ziyan Fu
Date: Fri Jul 04 2025 - 03:35:59 EST


From: Ziyan Fu <fuzy5@xxxxxxxxxx>

The driver probes with the invalid timeout value when
'iTCO_wdt_set_timeout()' fails, as its return value is not checked. In
this case, when executing "wdctl", we may get:

Device: /dev/watchdog0
Timeout: 30 seconds
Timeleft: 613 seconds

The timeout value is the value of "heartbeat" or "WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT", and
the timeleft value is calculated from the register value we actually read
(0xffff) by masking with 0x3ff and converting ticks to seconds (* 6 / 10).

Add error handling to return the failure code if 'iTCO_wdt_set_timeout()'
fails, ensuring the driver probe fails and prevents invalid operation.

Signed-off-by: Ziyan Fu <fuzy5@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
index 9ab769aa0244..4ab3405ef8e6 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c
@@ -577,7 +577,11 @@ static int iTCO_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
/* Check that the heartbeat value is within it's range;
if not reset to the default */
if (iTCO_wdt_set_timeout(&p->wddev, heartbeat)) {
- iTCO_wdt_set_timeout(&p->wddev, WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
+ ret = iTCO_wdt_set_timeout(&p->wddev, WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to set watchdog timeout (%d)\n", WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
+ return ret;
+ }
dev_info(dev, "timeout value out of range, using %d\n",
WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT);
heartbeat = WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT;
--
2.27.0