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)
committerZefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:05:15 +0000 (17:05 +0800)
commit26bc3aa52a38602cc5a4430571d90e158430573b
treede4302f6dd39d1ce61432f554dbb6cfa1b4f3866
parent741946cf911c1ea1cefcf790baaeb618b0712d0f
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>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
drivers/tty/tty_io.c