diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1c42b3f9756a..b5a0318fbf85 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ac03564f90bbe141e1fd917bde0ed3fee79a0dce
+refs/heads/master: aaa0b4f00729d5530b7d983930e60255574b347b
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c b/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c
index 26564094e33b..aec9311b108c 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-core.c
@@ -242,25 +242,24 @@ static const struct file_operations iio_event_chrdev_fileops = {
 
 static int iio_event_getfd(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 {
+	struct iio_event_interface *ev_int = indio_dev->event_interface;
 	int fd;
 
-	if (indio_dev->event_interface == NULL)
+	if (ev_int == NULL)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	mutex_lock(&indio_dev->event_interface->event_list_lock);
-	if (test_and_set_bit(IIO_BUSY_BIT_POS,
-			     &indio_dev->event_interface->flags)) {
-		mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->event_interface->event_list_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&ev_int->event_list_lock);
+	if (test_and_set_bit(IIO_BUSY_BIT_POS, &ev_int->flags)) {
+		mutex_unlock(&ev_int->event_list_lock);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->event_interface->event_list_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&ev_int->event_list_lock);
 	fd = anon_inode_getfd("iio:event",
-				&iio_event_chrdev_fileops,
-				indio_dev->event_interface, O_RDONLY);
+				&iio_event_chrdev_fileops, ev_int, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0) {
-		mutex_lock(&indio_dev->event_interface->event_list_lock);
+		mutex_lock(&ev_int->event_list_lock);
 		clear_bit(IIO_BUSY_BIT_POS, &ev_int->flags);
-		mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->event_interface->event_list_lock);
+		mutex_unlock(&ev_int->event_list_lock);
 	}
 	return fd;
 }