hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"
authorLiu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>
Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:38:57 +0000 (15:38 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 6 May 2014 14:59:35 +0000 (07:59 -0700)
commitdfe468daba552b4d474db75ff54562691150bb78
tree7248942c8852c6c37297fd3b2dcfd43fa2d310a3
parent05b36270c305cf8e4d0d2b29b89c42f7ecd77d1c
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>
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
kernel/sysctl.c