diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 12d24f326898..85715ab4cb22 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1ebca9dad5abe8b2ed4dbd186cd657fb47c1f321
+refs/heads/master: 1a02d59aba9b61b820517fb135086471c065b573
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/kfifo.c b/trunk/kernel/kfifo.c
index 498cabba225e..559fb5582b60 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/kfifo.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/kfifo.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfifo_alloc);
 void kfifo_free(struct kfifo *fifo)
 {
 	kfree(fifo->buffer);
+	_kfifo_init(fifo, NULL, 0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfifo_free);