diff --git a/net/sctp/inqueue.c b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
index f10fe7fbf24..cf4b7eb023b 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.