diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index c36d44a6a1c4..bd789e941561 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 84d3e7b9573291a1ea845bdd51b74bb484597661
+refs/heads/master: f44b527177d57ed382bfd93e1b55232465f6d058
diff --git a/trunk/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/trunk/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 362b811a2460..5e63ed09658d 100644
--- a/trunk/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/trunk/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ static int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len)
 	}
 
 	/* Link BUFF into the send queue. */
+	skb_header_release(buff);
 	__skb_append(skb, buff);
 
 	return 0;