diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 6f9c051d676..784da1533f6 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-03-08  Ulrich Weigand  <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
+
+	* gdb.mi/mi-var-cmd.exp: Allow -var-update null_ptr test to
+	pass on targets where address zero is readable.
+
 2007-03-08  Ulrich Weigand  <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
 
 	* gdb.xml/tdesc-arch.exp: Test is unsupported on target with
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-cmd.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-cmd.exp
index 1e394ccc9ad..fbf754db246 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-cmd.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-cmd.exp
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ mi_gdb_test "-var-create null_ptr * **0" \
 # will not test what it was meant to.  Most important is that GDB
 # does not crash.
 mi_gdb_test "-var-update null_ptr" \
-    {\^done,changelist=\[{.*}\]} \
+    {\^done,changelist=\[.*\]} \
     "update null_ptr"
 
 mi_gdb_test "-var-delete null_ptr" \