diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index 53ae0c6315ad..900011709e3b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -1238,7 +1238,14 @@ void ipv4_pktinfo_prepare(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		pktinfo->ipi_ifindex = 0;
 		pktinfo->ipi_spec_dst.s_addr = 0;
 	}
-	skb_dst_drop(skb);
+	/* 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);
 }
 
 int ip_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,