diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index e420ce9bbfb6e0..21bc3586c33e16 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -2864,8 +2864,10 @@ static int mptcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk)
 	if (unlikely(!net->mib.mptcp_statistics) && !mptcp_mib_alloc(net))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	ret = mptcp_init_sched(mptcp_sk(sk),
 			       mptcp_sched_find(mptcp_get_scheduler(net)));
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;