diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index df0240b85f26..a6a69ef47d3d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: c28bb7da74ab74a2860d652493aaff7de104d79e
+refs/heads/master: b3897f567100d18e0597f638b911d23aa5e0dd23
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/audit.c b/trunk/kernel/audit.c
index ce6d8ea3131e..fa3805516dff 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ void audit_log_n_string(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *string,
 int audit_string_contains_control(const char *string, size_t len)
 {
 	const unsigned char *p;
-	for (p = string; p < (const unsigned char *)string + len && *p; p++) {
+	for (p = string; p < (const unsigned char *)string + len; p++) {
 		if (*p == '"' || *p < 0x21 || *p > 0x7e)
 			return 1;
 	}