diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index a78540f28276..81f513d6f27f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -457,12 +457,9 @@ static struct neighbour *ipv4_neigh_lookup(const struct dst_entry *dst,
 }
 
 #define IP_IDENTS_SZ 2048u
-struct ip_ident_bucket {
-	atomic_t	id;
-	u32		stamp32;
-};
 
-static struct ip_ident_bucket *ip_idents __read_mostly;
+static atomic_t *ip_idents __read_mostly;
+static u32 *ip_tstamps __read_mostly;
 
 /* In order to protect privacy, we add a perturbation to identifiers
  * if one generator is seldom used. This makes hard for an attacker
@@ -470,15 +467,16 @@ static struct ip_ident_bucket *ip_idents __read_mostly;
  */
 u32 ip_idents_reserve(u32 hash, int segs)
 {
-	struct ip_ident_bucket *bucket = ip_idents + hash % IP_IDENTS_SZ;
-	u32 old = ACCESS_ONCE(bucket->stamp32);
+	u32 *p_tstamp = ip_tstamps + hash % IP_IDENTS_SZ;
+	atomic_t *p_id = ip_idents + hash % IP_IDENTS_SZ;
+	u32 old = ACCESS_ONCE(*p_tstamp);
 	u32 now = (u32)jiffies;
 	u32 delta = 0;
 
-	if (old != now && cmpxchg(&bucket->stamp32, old, now) == old)
+	if (old != now && cmpxchg(p_tstamp, old, now) == old)
 		delta = prandom_u32_max(now - old);
 
-	return atomic_add_return(segs + delta, &bucket->id) - segs;
+	return atomic_add_return(segs + delta, p_id) - segs;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_idents_reserve);
 
@@ -2741,6 +2739,10 @@ int __init ip_rt_init(void)
 
 	prandom_bytes(ip_idents, IP_IDENTS_SZ * sizeof(*ip_idents));
 
+	ip_tstamps = kcalloc(IP_IDENTS_SZ, sizeof(*ip_tstamps), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ip_tstamps)
+		panic("IP: failed to allocate ip_tstamps\n");
+
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		struct uncached_list *ul = &per_cpu(rt_uncached_list, cpu);