diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 359725a29d27..daf46c78d65f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 48bc41a49c4f3aa760dff84e7f71437f5ed520fe
+refs/heads/master: 0a3f4358ac6283fe3a565183eaf9716de28b6fd0
diff --git a/trunk/net/core/sock.c b/trunk/net/core/sock.c
index b32b1815ae5a..ac63b56e23b2 100644
--- a/trunk/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/trunk/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1529,6 +1529,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(proto_register);
 void proto_unregister(struct proto *prot)
 {
 	write_lock(&proto_list_lock);
+	list_del(&prot->node);
+	write_unlock(&proto_list_lock);
 
 	if (prot->slab != NULL) {
 		kmem_cache_destroy(prot->slab);
@@ -1550,9 +1552,6 @@ void proto_unregister(struct proto *prot)
 		kfree(name);
 		prot->twsk_slab = NULL;
 	}
-
-	list_del(&prot->node);
-	write_unlock(&proto_list_lock);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proto_unregister);