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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 7855f9f45b8..62787e30d50 100644
--- 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)