ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems

[mv-sheeva.git] / drivers / char / ipmi / ipmi_si_intf.c

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 7855f9f45b8ec9418bfdda34d304aaae5c3bb670..62787e30d508c2e63fe8f7923fbc45a63493a545 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -900,6 +900,14 @@ static void sender(void                *send_info,
        printk("**Enqueue: %d.%9.9d\n", t.tv_sec, t.tv_usec);
 #endif
 
+       /*
+        * last_timeout_jiffies is updated here to avoid
+        * smi_timeout() handler passing very large time_diff
+        * value to smi_event_handler() that causes
+        * the send command to abort.
+        */
+       smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
+
        mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
 
        if (smi_info->thread)