diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0ee0d1f0e5..4f90047e73 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Jan 16 14:20:52 2015  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* vm_args.c (keyword_hash_p): fix non-symbol keys hash.
+	  rb_extract_keywords() returns 0 not Qnil when no symbol keys is
+	  included.
+
 Fri Jan 16 11:06:17 2015  SHIBATA Hiroshi  <shibata.hiroshi@gmail.com>
 
 	* lib/unicode_normalize.rb: typo fix. [ci skip]
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_keyword.rb b/test/ruby/test_keyword.rb
index 82d6407fe3..70cdba1db2 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_keyword.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_keyword.rb
@@ -559,4 +559,11 @@ class TestKeywordArguments < Test::Unit::TestCase
       assert_equal({:bar => "bar"}, obj.foo, bug10659)
     }
   end
+
+  def m(a) yield a end
+
+  def test_nonsymbol_key
+    result = m(["a" => 10]) { |a = nil, **b| [a, b] }
+    assert_equal([{"a" => 10}, {}], result)
+  end
 end
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index eebf6aae32..6dceadbe69 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "2.2.0"
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2015-01-16"
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 9
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 10
 
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2015
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_MONTH 1
diff --git a/vm_args.c b/vm_args.c
index 55f6a3417c..48a46d5619 100644
--- a/vm_args.c
+++ b/vm_args.c
@@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ keyword_hash_p(VALUE *kw_hash_ptr, VALUE *rest_hash_ptr, rb_thread_t *th, const
     th->mark_stack_len = msl;
 
     if (!NIL_P(*rest_hash_ptr)) {
-	*kw_hash_ptr = rb_extract_keywords(rest_hash_ptr);
+	VALUE hash = rb_extract_keywords(rest_hash_ptr);
+	if (!hash) hash = Qnil;
+	*kw_hash_ptr = hash;
 	return TRUE;
     }
     else {