diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index adf4876de622..afe4ab5d4c95 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 26e3d11dd32da3768d64639899ccdb8a2649116f
+refs/heads/master: a24efe62dd165be7d03431cf936ae17d345fed69
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/fork.c b/trunk/kernel/fork.c
index 9d40367dd5db..43958d41e65a 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/fork.c
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 					struct pid *pid)
 {
 	int retval;
-	struct task_struct *p = NULL;
+	struct task_struct *p;
 	int cgroup_callbacks_done = 0;
 
 	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS)) == (CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_FS))