diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index cebf96959d43..9c78ab13f4ef 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 93628ffb9ba67c154849ac6c387f98f5e3198b84
+refs/heads/master: c867516de5256e9cfba2ec5847fa27e0f0ddd2c5
diff --git a/trunk/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/trunk/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 20065c9f2479..9dfdf010f1df 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -316,7 +316,8 @@ static handle_t *new_handle(int nblocks)
  * This function is visible to journal users (like ext3fs), so is not
  * called with the journal already locked.
  *
- * Return a pointer to a newly allocated handle, or NULL on failure
+ * Return a pointer to a newly allocated handle, or an ERR_PTR() value
+ * on failure.
  */
 handle_t *jbd2__journal_start(journal_t *journal, int nblocks, int gfp_mask)
 {