diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 6be29f9bd615..b747256f6e02 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 9c1ea148ad8bb06538b43908891afedebeaf361b
+refs/heads/master: 4cbf1cae9f08c76ed92700090a69a5b1f1f6a982
diff --git a/trunk/net/sctp/protocol.c b/trunk/net/sctp/protocol.c
index 5692ef5485d3..d9dd4c47bc29 100644
--- a/trunk/net/sctp/protocol.c
+++ b/trunk/net/sctp/protocol.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 #include <net/inet_ecn.h>
 
 /* Global data structures. */
-struct sctp_globals sctp_globals;
+struct sctp_globals sctp_globals __read_mostly;
 struct proc_dir_entry	*proc_net_sctp;
 DEFINE_SNMP_STAT(struct sctp_mib, sctp_statistics) __read_mostly;