diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index bdc64a4edacb..9e42c0ec2e21 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 32ef43848f283e0ef945d3c67e851c143fea3970
+refs/heads/master: 808bf29b9195c52239b9aaeda7c6082a0ddf07c6
diff --git a/trunk/init/main.c b/trunk/init/main.c
index 9c51ee7adf3d..2a9b88aa5e76 100644
--- a/trunk/init/main.c
+++ b/trunk/init/main.c
@@ -209,8 +209,19 @@ early_param("quiet", quiet_kernel);
 
 static int __init loglevel(char *str)
 {
-	get_option(&str, &console_loglevel);
-	return 0;
+	int newlevel;
+
+	/*
+	 * Only update loglevel value when a correct setting was passed,
+	 * to prevent blind crashes (when loglevel being set to 0) that
+	 * are quite hard to debug
+	 */
+	if (get_option(&str, &newlevel)) {
+		console_loglevel = newlevel;
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 early_param("loglevel", loglevel);