diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index b17ead0a960b..147ce26c0673 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 73d9c4fd1a6ec4950b2eac8135d35506bf400d6c
+refs/heads/master: 027f6e1ad32de32f9fe1c61d0f744e329e8acfd9
diff --git a/trunk/net/sctp/inqueue.c b/trunk/net/sctp/inqueue.c
index f10fe7fbf24c..cf4b7eb023b3 100644
--- a/trunk/net/sctp/inqueue.c
+++ b/trunk/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.