diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index f050ab7d801d..bb40ba1dbb9c 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 4b021628beb26238087812829cc080da47e4b236
+refs/heads/master: 83d7eb2979cd3390c375470225dd2d8f2009bc70
diff --git a/trunk/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/trunk/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 7db09c3f5289..e7a5f17d5e95 100644
--- a/trunk/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/trunk/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -218,8 +218,7 @@ int ip6_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl,
 			}
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			skb = skb2;
-			if (sk)
-				skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk);
+			skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk);
 		}
 		if (opt->opt_flen)
 			ipv6_push_frag_opts(skb, opt, &proto);