diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index d6c1af9..e345109 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2524,6 +2524,12 @@
 static int __init sock_init(void)
 {
 	int err;
+	/*
+	 *      Initialize the network sysctl infrastructure.
+	 */
+	err = net_sysctl_init();
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
 
 	/*
 	 *      Initialize sock SLAB cache.