1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sctp/inqueue.c b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
index f10fe7fbf24c..cf4b7eb023b3 100644
--- a/net/sctp/inqueue.c
+++ b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ void sctp_inq_free(struct sctp_inq *queue)
 void sctp_inq_push(struct sctp_inq *q, struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
 {
         /* Directly call the packet handling routine. */
+        if (chunk->rcvr->dead) {
+                sctp_chunk_free(chunk);
+                return;
+        }
 
         /* We are now calling this either from the soft interrupt
          * or from the backlog processing.