This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled watchdog: f71808e_wdt: clear watchdog timeout occurred flag to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: watchdog-f71808e_wdt-clear-watchdog-timeout-occurred-flag.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4f39d575844148fbf3081571a1f3b4ae04150958 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:17:45 +0200 Subject: watchdog: f71808e_wdt: clear watchdog timeout occurred flag From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 4f39d575844148fbf3081571a1f3b4ae04150958 upstream. The flag indicating a watchdog timeout having occurred normally persists till Power-On Reset of the Fintek Super I/O chip. The user can clear it by writing a `1' to the bit. The driver doesn't offer a restart method, so regular system reboot might not reset the Super I/O and if the watchdog isn't enabled, we won't touch the register containing the bit on the next boot. In this case all subsequent regular reboots will be wrongly flagged by the driver as being caused by the watchdog. Fix this by having the flag cleared after read. This is also done by other drivers like those for the i6300esb and mpc8xxx_wdt. Fixes: b97cb21a4634 ("watchdog: f71808e_wdt: Fix WDTMOUT_STS register read") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611191750.28096-5-a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c @@ -706,6 +706,13 @@ static int __init watchdog_init(int sioa wdt_conf = superio_inb(sioaddr, F71808FG_REG_WDT_CONF); watchdog.caused_reboot = wdt_conf & BIT(F71808FG_FLAG_WDTMOUT_STS); + /* + * We don't want WDTMOUT_STS to stick around till regular reboot. + * Write 1 to the bit to clear it to zero. + */ + superio_outb(sioaddr, F71808FG_REG_WDT_CONF, + wdt_conf | BIT(F71808FG_FLAG_WDTMOUT_STS)); + superio_exit(sioaddr); err = watchdog_set_timeout(timeout); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.8/watchdog-f71808e_wdt-remove-use-of-wrong-watchdog_info-option.patch queue-5.8/watchdog-f71808e_wdt-clear-watchdog-timeout-occurred-flag.patch queue-5.8/watchdog-f71808e_wdt-indicate-wdiof_cardreset-support-in-watchdog_info.options.patch