diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 8471dd116771462d149e1da2807e446b69b74bcc..acd69cfe2951ed89213403b3e9556da6ddd50ba8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -2620,7 +2620,7 @@ static int inet_rtm_getroute(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
 
 	/* Bugfix: need to give ip_route_input enough of an IP header to not gag. */
-	ip_hdr(skb)->protocol = IPPROTO_ICMP;
+	ip_hdr(skb)->protocol = IPPROTO_UDP;
 	skb_reserve(skb, MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct iphdr));
 
 	src = tb[RTA_SRC] ? nla_get_in_addr(tb[RTA_SRC]) : 0;