diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 407199ca6de8..f63389630484 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: fd18de50b9e7965f93d231e7390436fb8900c0e6
+refs/heads/master: 2b79bc4f7ebbd5af3c8b867968f9f15602d5f802
diff --git a/trunk/fs/fcntl.c b/trunk/fs/fcntl.c
index cc8e4de2fee5..1ad703150dee 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -117,11 +117,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(dup2, unsigned int, oldfd, unsigned int, newfd)
 {
 	if (unlikely(newfd == oldfd)) { /* corner case */
 		struct files_struct *files = current->files;
+		int retval = oldfd;
+
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		if (!fcheck_files(files, oldfd))
-			oldfd = -EBADF;
+			retval = -EBADF;
 		rcu_read_unlock();
-		return oldfd;
+		return retval;
 	}
 	return sys_dup3(oldfd, newfd, 0);
 }