Potential deadlock on hanging SocketInputStream.socketRead

[reborg]

We recently bumped into an unresponsive app (with no logs or stack traces). After thread dumping the app, the culprit seems to be an initial hanging read (which is common problem, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28785085/how-to-prevent-hangs-on-socketinputstream-socketread0-in-java). The hanging thread could reasonably die there, but this https://github.com/hugoduncan/clj-ssh/blob/develop/src/clj_ssh/ssh.clj#L400 lock prevents any other requests from that point forward. Is there a way to avoid global locking on the known-hosts file?

Here's the relevant bit of the thread dump:

"qtp1869210328-19" #19 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x00007fb998801800 nid=0x1b runnable [0x00007fb9750d6000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(SocketInputStream.java:116)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:171)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:141)
	at com.jcraft.jsch.IO.getByte(IO.java:82)
	at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.read(Session.java:918)
	at com.jcraft.jsch.UserAuthNone.start(UserAuthNone.java:85)
	at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Session.java:389)
	at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Session.java:183)
	at clj_ssh.ssh$fn__6855.invokeStatic(ssh.clj:118)
	at clj_ssh.ssh$fn__6855.invoke(ssh.clj:115)
	at clj_ssh.ssh.protocols$fn__6813$G__6780__6822.invoke(protocols.clj:4)
	at clj_ssh.ssh$connect.invokeStatic(ssh.clj:401)
	- locked <0x0000000704fe13b0> (a java.lang.Object)
	at clj_ssh.ssh$connect.invoke(ssh.clj:397)

I could see around 50 threads waiting for lock <0x0000000704fe13b0> to be released. We had to restart the app. Thanks