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Commit 37b16457 authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable



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.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # since before 2.6.32
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 547039ec
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