diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index da76e1de59b3..82e99545f6b9 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 47dffc7547ed3b105dabd570ed864347687beac2
+refs/heads/master: 7364e445f62825758fa61195d237a5b8ecdd06ec
diff --git a/trunk/net/core/dev.c b/trunk/net/core/dev.c
index f91abf800161..a39354ee1432 100644
--- a/trunk/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/trunk/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1055,6 +1055,8 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
  */
 int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
 {
+	char *new_ifalias;
+
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
 	if (len >= IFALIASZ)
@@ -1068,9 +1070,10 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	dev->ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!dev->ifalias)
+	new_ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!new_ifalias)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	dev->ifalias = new_ifalias;
 
 	strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1);
 	return len;