diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 01130392b7c0..a268acc48af0 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -1949,7 +1949,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_set_hashsize(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	/* On boot, we can set this without any fancy locking. */
-	if (!nf_conntrack_htable_size)
+	if (!nf_conntrack_hash)
 		return param_set_uint(val, kp);
 
 	rc = kstrtouint(val, 0, &hashsize);