diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index d1b2d8034b54d085f24c2daf646d9c0210c90b74..1bbf744c2cc35e7953b9580db08a357f4e829a04 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2658,8 +2658,10 @@ static void init_loopback(struct net_device *dev)
 			sp_rt = addrconf_dst_alloc(idev, &sp_ifa->addr, 0);
 
 			/* Failure cases are ignored */
-			if (!IS_ERR(sp_rt))
+			if (!IS_ERR(sp_rt)) {
+				sp_ifa->rt = sp_rt;
 				ip6_ins_rt(sp_rt);
+			}
 		}
 		read_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);
 	}