diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 81d2ef07f733..0c7b4051d8ad 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 9e6996240afcbe61682eab8eeaeb65c34333164d
+refs/heads/master: bde892232532ed522bb56b04576d07f91e59b3c7
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/trunk/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index 258e4591e1ca..67785f635399 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/trunk/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static u64 *FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr,
 {
 	unsigned access = gw->pt_access;
 	struct kvm_mmu_page *shadow_page;
-	u64 spte, *sptep;
+	u64 spte, *sptep = NULL;
 	int direct;
 	gfn_t table_gfn;
 	int r;