From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:05:09 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] hrtimers: fix oldvalue return in setitimer
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc2~132
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a16a1c095a2392d49fafea22f3a508e268ef7167;p=linux-2.6

[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 6433d06855..379be2f8c8 100644
--- a/kernel/itimer.c
+++ b/kernel/itimer.c
@@ -155,16 +155,16 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue)
 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);