diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
index 78e5eaf761fc0be5dcca119b4d68d6e68eb7c6b9..02549a380f527d921306cb822380f5229b982225 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
@@ -505,19 +505,21 @@ static int ipvlan_process_outbound(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	struct ethhdr *ethh = eth_hdr(skb);
 	int ret = NET_XMIT_DROP;
 
-	/* In this mode we dont care about multicast and broadcast traffic */
-	if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethh->h_dest)) {
-		pr_debug_ratelimited("Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type=[%x]\n",
-				     ntohs(skb->protocol));
-		kfree_skb(skb);
-		goto out;
-	}
-
 	/* The ipvlan is a pseudo-L2 device, so the packets that we receive
 	 * will have L2; which need to discarded and processed further
 	 * in the net-ns of the main-device.
 	 */
 	if (skb_mac_header_was_set(skb)) {
+		/* In this mode we dont care about
+		 * multicast and broadcast traffic */
+		if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethh->h_dest)) {
+			pr_debug_ratelimited(
+				"Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type=[%x]\n",
+				ntohs(skb->protocol));
+			kfree_skb(skb);
+			goto out;
+		}
+
 		skb_pull(skb, sizeof(*ethh));
 		skb->mac_header = (typeof(skb->mac_header))~0U;
 		skb_reset_network_header(skb);