diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9f1dbd628014..283c5138c26d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ab6baf980b095c70a56c5eb2f58166aef8a0edc8
+refs/heads/master: 4003b65871c101eb5ce8f37a325feac54aa5c681
diff --git a/trunk/net/dcb/dcbnl.c b/trunk/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
index f54c784e2b5b..e954d4c6590c 100644
--- a/trunk/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
+++ b/trunk/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
@@ -1368,6 +1368,9 @@ static int dcbnl_ieee_set(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
 	if (!ops)
 		return err;
 
+	if (!tb[DCB_ATTR_IEEE])
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	err = nla_parse_nested(ieee, DCB_ATTR_IEEE_MAX,
 			       tb[DCB_ATTR_IEEE], dcbnl_ieee_policy);
 	if (err)