diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index bbe97e3547dd..248910a5b9b6 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1f34c71afe5115e77a49c4e67720a66e27053e54
+refs/heads/master: 169c246a30808588436794e96a97c61a01af9bed
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/trunk/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 3db3d242c3ee..369f2eebbad1 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	vb->num_pages = 0;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&vb->config_change);
 	vb->vdev = vdev;
+	vb->need_stats_update = 0;
 
 	/* We expect two virtqueues: inflate and deflate,
 	 * and optionally stat. */