diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php
index 7185d75e9220..0f7f46fff0ea 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.php
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ public function getClientIps()
      * ("Client-Ip" for instance), configure it via the $trustedHeaderSet
      * argument of the Request::setTrustedProxies() method instead.
      *
-     * @return string|null The client IP address
+     * @return string The client IP address
      *
      * @see getClientIps()
      * @see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For