diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 4564e1fca3eb42ab23c8370069417a456cdc76eb..0e32d2e1bdbfecabd3ae7e8ddb33a99f51cd7b51 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -502,11 +502,11 @@ static int ip6gre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 		skb->protocol = gre_proto;
 		/* WCCP version 1 and 2 protocol decoding.
-		 * - Change protocol to IP
+		 * - Change protocol to IPv6
 		 * - When dealing with WCCPv2, Skip extra 4 bytes in GRE header
 		 */
 		if (flags == 0 && gre_proto == htons(ETH_P_WCCP)) {
-			skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
+			skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
 			if ((*(h + offset) & 0xF0) != 0x40)
 				offset += 4;
 		}