[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 82a1601ed176ced889cce05127b01a391dd6b3e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:51:30 -0400
Subject: 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 at hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 34110719fe03..fd682252bbac 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1701,6 +1701,7 @@ int tty_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	int	pty_master, tty_closing, o_tty_closing, do_sleep;
 	int	idx;
 	char	buf[64];
+	long	timeout = 0;

 	if (tty_paranoia_check(tty, inode, __func__))
 		return 0;
@@ -1785,7 +1786,11 @@ int tty_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 				__func__, tty_name(tty, buf));
 		tty_unlock_pair(tty, o_tty);
 		mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
-		schedule();
+		schedule_timeout_killable(timeout);
+		if (timeout < 120 * HZ)
+			timeout = 2 * timeout + 1;
+		else
+			timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
 	}

 	/*
--
2.1.0