diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 58ee1fce2ae2..8e345a0db1b0 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 0f15b1511ad2e82a6b422d275c369e92242854e6
+refs/heads/master: e269ed26d4c9e6da1614709c1bf4c50ff8c8c5b3
diff --git a/trunk/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c b/trunk/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
index 6c4cc12c7414..bbba3a19e944 100644
--- a/trunk/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
+++ b/trunk/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ static int l2tp_nl_session_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, int fl
 	     nla_put_u16(skb, L2TP_ATTR_MRU, session->mru)))
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 
-	if ((session->ifname && session->ifname[0] &&
+	if ((session->ifname[0] &&
 	     nla_put_string(skb, L2TP_ATTR_IFNAME, session->ifname)) ||
 	    (session->cookie_len &&
 	     nla_put(skb, L2TP_ATTR_COOKIE, session->cookie_len,