diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index 1c3354d028a428a95fdd44ff1c8b1a1acdf07e82..dd68a9ed5e408635ce73a7059581f3de48002dce 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -1228,14 +1228,7 @@ void ipv4_pktinfo_prepare(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		pktinfo->ipi_ifindex = 0;
 		pktinfo->ipi_spec_dst.s_addr = 0;
 	}
-	/* We need to keep the dst for __ip_options_echo()
-	 * We could restrict the test to opt.ts_needtime || opt.srr,
-	 * but the following is good enough as IP options are not often used.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(IPCB(skb)->opt.optlen))
-		skb_dst_force(skb);
-	else
-		skb_dst_drop(skb);
+	skb_dst_drop(skb);
 }
 
 int ip_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,