Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pat2

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/init_64.c

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index e36d5798cbff..5131e5471169 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
                 return tmr;
         if (unlikely(!(tmr->sigq = sigqueue_alloc()))) {
                 kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
-                tmr = NULL;
+                return NULL;
         }
         memset(&tmr->sigq->info, 0, sizeof(siginfo_t));
         return tmr;