From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- 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 d3448a90f0f9..25d07412e08e 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; } /* -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html