diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 90707b21c014..407336c03509 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 79681842e160c3211eeeb47ea31b061038d1e41e
+refs/heads/master: 0350cb078f5035716ebdad4ad4709d02fe466a8a
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index ab207901d32a..23c254e26018 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ static int ocfs2_truncate_for_delete(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 		handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
 		if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 			status = PTR_ERR(handle);
+			handle = NULL;
 			mlog_errno(status);
 			goto out;
 		}