1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 90147370bfd7..d9cce54cc2d5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1904,6 +1904,7 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev, int force_change)
         int sync_req;
         int nospares = 0;
 
+        mddev->utime = get_seconds();
         if (mddev->external)
                 return;
 repeat:
@@ -1933,7 +1934,6 @@ repeat:
                 nospares = 0;
 
         sync_req = mddev->in_sync;
-        mddev->utime = get_seconds();
 
         /* If this is just a dirty<->clean transition, and the array is clean
          * and 'events' is odd, we can roll back to the previous clean state */