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authorLiu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>2014-04-07 15:38:57 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-05-06 07:59:35 -0700
commitdfe468daba552b4d474db75ff54562691150bb78 (patch)
tree7248942c8852c6c37297fd3b2dcfd43fa2d310a3 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent05b36270c305cf8e4d0d2b29b89c42f7ecd77d1c (diff)
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hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"
commit 80df28476505ed4e6701c3448c63c9229a50c655 upstream. As sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec is unsigned long, when this value is larger then LONG_MAX/HZ, the function schedule_timeout_interruptible in watchdog will return immediately without sleep and with print : schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83 and then the funtion watchdog will call schedule_timeout_interruptible again and again. The screen will be filled with "schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83" This patch does some check and correction in sysctl, to let the function schedule_timeout_interruptible allways get the valid parameter. Signed-off-by: Liu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com> Tested-by: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 49e13e1f8fe6..aae21e842918 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ static int min_percpu_pagelist_fract = 8;
static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX;
static const int cap_last_cap = CAP_LAST_CAP;
+/*this is needed for proc_doulongvec_minmax of sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
+static unsigned long hung_task_timeout_max = (LONG_MAX/HZ);
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
#include <linux/inotify.h>
#endif
@@ -995,6 +1000,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs,
+ .extra2 = &hung_task_timeout_max,
},
{
.procname = "hung_task_warnings",