diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index bb79f5da9d5..05c2fb70469 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ Ethan Rahn                         erahn@arista.com
 Eziz Durdyyev                      ezizdurdy@gmail.com
 Fabrizio D'Angelo                  fdangelo@redhat.com
 Faicker Mo                         faicker.mo@ucloud.cn
+fang                               fangjiannan@cmss.chinamobile.com
 Fangrui Song                       maskray@google.com
 Felix Huettner                     felix.huettner@mail.schwarz
 Fengqi Li                          lifengqi@inspur.com
diff --git a/lib/ipf.c b/lib/ipf.c
index 2d715f5e9d3..59e23235570 100644
--- a/lib/ipf.c
+++ b/lib/ipf.c
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ ipf_process_frag(struct ipf *ipf, struct ipf_list *ipf_list,
              * recommend not setting the mempool number of buffers too low
              * and also clamp the number of fragments. */
             struct ipf_frag *frag = &ipf_list->frag_list[last_inuse_idx + 1];
-            frag->pkt = dp_packet_clone(pkt);
+            frag->pkt = pkt;
             frag->start_data_byte = start_data_byte;
             frag->end_data_byte = end_data_byte;
             ipf_list->last_inuse_idx++;
@@ -959,7 +959,6 @@ ipf_extract_frags_from_batch(struct ipf *ipf, struct dp_packet_batch *pb,
                     dp_packet_batch_refill(pb, rp->pkt, pb_idx);
                     rp->list->reass_execute_ctx = rp->pkt;
                 }
-                dp_packet_delete(pkt);
             }
             ovs_mutex_unlock(&ipf->ipf_lock);
         } else {