[PATCH 3/7] [hrtimers] Fix oldvalue return in setitimer

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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 <[email protected]>

---

 kernel/itimer.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

3f59dd20898d805781b3eac7ed0807e7a0b30f2f
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 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itime
 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);
-- 
1.0.8

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