[PATCH] hrtimers: fix oldvalue return in setitimer
This resolves bugzilla bug#5617. The oldvalue of the timer was read after the
timer was cancelled, so the remaining time was always zero.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c
index 6433d06..379be2f 100644
--- a/kernel/itimer.c
+++ b/kernel/itimer.c
@@ -155,16 +155,16 @@
again:
spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
timer = &tsk->signal->real_timer;
- /* We are sharing ->siglock with it_real_fn() */
- if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(timer) < 0) {
- spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
- goto again;
- }
if (ovalue) {
ovalue->it_value = itimer_get_remtime(timer);
ovalue->it_interval
= ktime_to_timeval(tsk->signal->it_real_incr);
}
+ /* We are sharing ->siglock with it_real_fn() */
+ if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(timer) < 0) {
+ spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
+ goto again;
+ }
tsk->signal->it_real_incr =
timeval_to_ktime(value->it_interval);
expires = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_value);