Patch "tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tty-fix-high-cpu-load-if-tty-is-unreleaseable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 37b164578826406a173ca7c20d9ba7430134d23e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:51:30 -0400
Subject: tty: Fix high cpu load if tty is unreleaseable

From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1701,6 +1701,7 @@ int tty_release(struct inode *inode, str
 	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, str
 				__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;
 	}
 
 	/*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.14/tty-fix-high-cpu-load-if-tty-is-unreleaseable.patch
queue-3.14/serial-fix-divide-by-zero-fault-in-uart_get_divisor.patch
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