diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 78d4914f734e..f570162ffcf1 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 52fe7c9cc1637110ba4e0e6fe5d07cc0786d62de
+refs/heads/master: 13ad17745c2cbd437d9e24b2d97393e0be11c439
diff --git a/trunk/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/trunk/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 31459ef13ca2..2d65c6bb24c1 100644
--- a/trunk/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/trunk/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1671,6 +1671,9 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
 			snprintf(ifname, IFNAMSIZ, "%s%%d", ops->kind);
 
 		dest_net = rtnl_link_get_net(net, tb);
+		if (IS_ERR(dest_net))
+			return PTR_ERR(dest_net);
+
 		dev = rtnl_create_link(net, dest_net, ifname, ops, tb);
 
 		if (IS_ERR(dev))