--- /dev/null
+MIPS: ath79: fix maximum timeout
+
+If the userland tries to set a timeout higher than the max_timeout, then we should fallback to max_timeout.
+
+Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
+
+--- a/drivers/watchdog/ath79_wdt.c
++++ b/drivers/watchdog/ath79_wdt.c
+@@ -114,10 +114,14 @@ static inline void ath79_wdt_disable(voi
+
+ static int ath79_wdt_set_timeout(int val)
+ {
+- if (val < 1 || val > max_timeout)
++ if (val < 1)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+- timeout = val;
++ if (val > max_timeout)
++ timeout = max_timeout;
++ else
++ timeout = val;
++
+ ath79_wdt_keepalive();
+
+ return 0;