stty sometimes hangs (ERESTARTSYS error) when called from .bashrc

[Joe Peterson]

From: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
To: bug-bash@gnu.org
Subject: stty sometimes hangs (ERESTARTSYS error) when called from .bashrc

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -march=i686 -O2 -pipe
uname output: Linux crater 2.6.26-rc6-git4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 18 15:24:32 
MDT 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 3.2
Patch Level: 33
Release Status: release

Description:
        Doing "su foo" (where foo is a user set to use "bash" as the shell),
        if the user has an "stty" command in .bashrc, and there is a slight
        delay before this command is reached (because of previous commands,
        etc. - note that a "sleep 2" often demonstrates this), the stty
        process will sometimes hang in state "T", having received the
        ERESTARTSYS error over and over.

        The cause seems to be that the tty->pgrp process id is not equal
        to the task_pgrp(current) process id when the kernel's
        tty_io.c:ttr_check_change() function is called, invoking the error.
        One process id is that of the "su", and the other is that of "bash"
        (child of the su).

Repeat-By:
        Make a user "foo" with a .bashrc containing only:
          sleep 2
          stty ixany

        Log into the console as root, then "su foo".  It seems to often
        not hang the first time (the prompt appears after a couple of seconds
        as expected), but exiting and redoing it will often hang.  There
        is a degree of intermittent behavior, suggesting a timing issue.

        The hang can be broken by then doing "killall -9 stty".