diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index ad768bc76e86..be7dc1197490 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 2a4e64b8f6bcbf23ddd375b78342051ae8862284
+refs/heads/master: d496aab567e7e52b3e974c9192a5de6e77dce32c
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/kprobes.c b/trunk/kernel/kprobes.c
index 95dd7212e610..29f5b65bee29 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1077,6 +1077,7 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct task_struct *tk)
 		/* Early boot.  kretprobe_table_locks not yet initialized. */
 		return;
 
+	INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp);
 	hash = hash_ptr(tk, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
 	head = &kretprobe_inst_table[hash];
 	kretprobe_table_lock(hash, &flags);
@@ -1085,7 +1086,6 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct task_struct *tk)
 			recycle_rp_inst(ri, &empty_rp);
 	}
 	kretprobe_table_unlock(hash, &flags);
-	INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp);
 	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(ri, node, tmp, &empty_rp, hlist) {
 		hlist_del(&ri->hlist);
 		kfree(ri);