diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1fbf8323b1a1..46c00948ef2a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 685e010748f64a752a981254101e976d7291d16c
+refs/heads/master: 43c0364551d3ca0042f6f6a3da701edf1143d62f
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c b/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c
index dc2339ae63d0..0b671663b55d 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c
@@ -790,6 +790,9 @@ static ssize_t iio_ev_value_store(struct device *dev,
 	unsigned long val;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!indio_dev->info->write_event_value)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	ret = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &val);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;