hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"

commit 80df28476505ed4e6701c3448c63c9229a50c655 upstream.

As sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec is unsigned long, when this value is
larger then LONG_MAX/HZ, the function schedule_timeout_interruptible in
watchdog will return immediately without sleep and with print :

  schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83

and then the funtion watchdog will call schedule_timeout_interruptible
again and again.  The screen will be filled with

	"schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83"

This patch does some check and correction in sysctl, to let the function
schedule_timeout_interruptible allways get the valid parameter.

Signed-off-by: Liu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 9edcf456e0fcaa16e929b8a87c6229e33d24efa8..ed6c01626acdd198cf7fe6b4aeb86c53811f5bff 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ static int min_percpu_pagelist_fract = 8;
 static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX;
 static const int cap_last_cap = CAP_LAST_CAP;
 
+/*this is needed for proc_doulongvec_minmax of sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
+static unsigned long hung_task_timeout_max = (LONG_MAX/HZ);
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
 #include <linux/inotify.h>
 #endif
@@ -966,6 +971,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned long),
                .mode           = 0644,
                .proc_handler   = proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs,
+               .extra2         = &hung_task_timeout_max,
        },
        {
                .procname       = "hung_task_warnings",