diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 211eafb8a0ca..90d253831f13 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1e9f0207d3e63fab7a0f8a0e532bdc73ea850baf
+refs/heads/master: 6e129d04de7adbd63e86293533688ce88b9b13d8
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/trunk/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 8531c1caac28..5234d20ef44d 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1092,8 +1092,7 @@ netdev_tx_t usbnet_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb,
 	unsigned long		flags;
 	int retval;
 
-	if (skb)
-		skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
+	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
 
 	// some devices want funky USB-level framing, for
 	// win32 driver (usually) and/or hardware quirks