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Guenter Roeck committed d1ed3ba4e3d
watchdog: Ensure that wdd is not dereferenced if NULL Smatch rightfully complains that wdd is dereferenced in the watchdog release function after being checked for NULL. Also make sure that it is not accessed outside mutex protection to avoid use-after-free problems. Fixes: e6c71e84e4c0 ("watchdog: Introduce WDOG_HW_RUNNING flag") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>