2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 176ce4cda68a..d6a7ca1fdac5 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 static void proc_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
         struct proc_dir_entry *de;
+        struct ctl_table_header *head;
 
         truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
         end_writeback(inode);
@@ -38,8 +39,11 @@ static void proc_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
         de = PROC_I(inode)->pde;
         if (de)
                 pde_put(de);
-        if (PROC_I(inode)->sysctl)
-                sysctl_head_put(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl);
+        head = PROC_I(inode)->sysctl;
+        if (head) {
+                rcu_assign_pointer(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl, NULL);
+                sysctl_head_put(head);
+        }
 }
 
 struct vfsmount *proc_mnt;
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 09a1f92a34ef..8eb2522111c5 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -408,15 +408,18 @@ static int proc_sys_compare(const struct dentry *parent,
                 const struct dentry *dentry, const struct inode *inode,
                 unsigned int len, const char *str, const struct qstr *name)
 {
+        struct ctl_table_header *head;
         /* Although proc doesn't have negative dentries, rcu-walk means
          * that inode here can be NULL */
+        /* AV: can it, indeed? */
         if (!inode)
-                return 0;
+                return 1;
         if (name->len != len)
                 return 1;
         if (memcmp(name->name, str, len))
                 return 1;
-        return !sysctl_is_seen(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl);
+        head = rcu_dereference(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl);
+        return !head || !sysctl_is_seen(head);
 }
 
 static const struct dentry_operations proc_sys_dentry_operations = {