tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable
authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:51:30 +0000 (13:51 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 6 Nov 2014 00:14:09 +0000 (16:14 -0800)
commit37b164578826406a173ca7c20d9ba7430134d23e
treec3e53ae6a03334b9600929f6b6bac919b7390b87
parent547039ec502076e60034eeb79611df3433a99b7d
tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable

Kernel oops can cause the tty to be unreleaseable (for example, if
n_tty_read() crashes while on the read_wait queue). This will cause
tty_release() to endlessly loop without sleeping.

Use a killable sleep timeout which grows by 2n+1 jiffies over the interval
[0, 120 secs.) and then jumps to forever (but still killable).

NB: killable just allows for the task to be rewoken manually, not
to be terminated.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # since before 2.6.32
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_io.c