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>
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:48:00 +0000 (08:48 -0800)
commita88f5eaa6802026c97ebe34c2b961d60ad9c5bfa
tree1d39096a21ccf39db62d89e239314099efc8120a
parent33d90ee4d0318fb1ec5bba6a8b9f4fa2d5333d3c
tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable

commit 37b164578826406a173ca7c20d9ba7430134d23e upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_io.c