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 17:00:10 +0000 (09:00 -0800)
commit2ceee507fac81179f206691fec3163839c5dd5d8
treed14bb14c2ef0f06248c73c3a7128707f971df174
parent905290c5f3143eb78683bb24ec3f434fc0abb48b
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