3.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no>

commit 3935e89505a1c3ab3f3b0c7ef0eae54124f48905 upstream.

Commit 8d4516904b39 ("watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression") causes an
oops or hard lockup when doing

 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
 echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

and the kernel is booted with nmi_watchdog=1 (default)

Running laptop-mode-tools and disconnecting/connecting AC power will
cause this to trigger, making it a common failure scenario on laptops.

Instead of bailing out of watchdog_disable() when !watchdog_enabled we
can initialize the hrtimer regardless of watchdog_enabled status.  This
makes it safe to call watchdog_disable() in the nmi_watchdog=0 case,
without the negative effect on the enabled => disabled => enabled case.

All these tests pass with this patch:
- nmi_watchdog=1
  echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
  echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

- nmi_watchdog=0
  echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

- nmi_watchdog=0
  echo mem > /sys/power/state

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51661

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no>
Cc: Norbert Warmuth <nwarm...@t-online.de>
Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisb...@canonical.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/watchdog.c |   11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@ static void watchdog_enable(unsigned int
 {
        struct hrtimer *hrtimer = &__raw_get_cpu_var(watchdog_hrtimer);
 
+       /* kick off the timer for the hardlockup detector */
+       hrtimer_init(hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+       hrtimer->function = watchdog_timer_fn;
+
        if (!watchdog_enabled) {
                kthread_park(current);
                return;
@@ -351,10 +355,6 @@ static void watchdog_enable(unsigned int
        /* Enable the perf event */
        watchdog_nmi_enable(cpu);
 
-       /* kick off the timer for the hardlockup detector */
-       hrtimer_init(hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
-       hrtimer->function = watchdog_timer_fn;
-
        /* done here because hrtimer_start can only pin to smp_processor_id() */
        hrtimer_start(hrtimer, ns_to_ktime(get_sample_period()),
                      HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
@@ -368,9 +368,6 @@ static void watchdog_disable(unsigned in
 {
        struct hrtimer *hrtimer = &__raw_get_cpu_var(watchdog_hrtimer);
 
-       if (!watchdog_enabled)
-               return;
-
        watchdog_set_prio(SCHED_NORMAL, 0);
        hrtimer_cancel(hrtimer);
        /* disable the perf event */


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