diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c
index d5dc614af2f9..0737fc7b7ebd 100644
--- a/net/key/af_key.c
+++ b/net/key/af_key.c
@@ -2861,10 +2861,12 @@ static int pfkey_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, const struct sadb
 	void *ext_hdrs[SADB_EXT_MAX];
 	int err;
 
-	err = pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL,
-			      BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk));
-	if (err)
-		return err;
+	/* Non-zero return value of pfkey_broadcast() does not always signal
+	 * an error and even on an actual error we may still want to process
+	 * the message so rather ignore the return value.
+	 */
+	pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL,
+			BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk));
 
 	memset(ext_hdrs, 0, sizeof(ext_hdrs));
 	err = parse_exthdrs(skb, hdr, ext_hdrs);