diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9cc8ac7df283..6729e04043a2 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 8116ffad4180b39d7a755345c1fde09da83930c0
+refs/heads/master: 313e7b4d2588539e388d31c1febd50503a0083fc
diff --git a/trunk/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/trunk/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index ad3d15cb0a0d..8c522ae031bb 100644
--- a/trunk/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/trunk/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -1250,6 +1250,14 @@ struct sctp_endpoint {
 	int last_key;
 	int key_changed_at;
 
+ 	/* digest:  This is a digest of the sctp cookie.  This field is
+ 	 * 	    only used on the receive path when we try to validate
+ 	 * 	    that the cookie has not been tampered with.  We put
+ 	 * 	    this here so we pre-allocate this once and can re-use
+ 	 * 	    on every receive.
+ 	 */
+ 	__u8 digest[SCTP_SIGNATURE_SIZE];
+ 
 	/* sendbuf acct. policy.	*/
 	__u32 sndbuf_policy;
 
diff --git a/trunk/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/trunk/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
index 4fe1d6c863b1..5e0de3c0eead 100644
--- a/trunk/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
+++ b/trunk/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
@@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ struct sctp_association *sctp_unpack_cookie(
 	struct sctp_signed_cookie *cookie;
 	struct sctp_cookie *bear_cookie;
 	int headersize, bodysize, fixed_size;
-	__u8 digest[SCTP_SIGNATURE_SIZE];
+	__u8 *digest = ep->digest;
 	struct scatterlist sg;
 	unsigned int keylen, len;
 	char *key;