diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index da44fab..283a722 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@
 struct rt_hash_bucket {
 	struct rtable	*chain;
 };
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK)
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK) || \
+	defined(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING)
 /*
  * Instead of using one spinlock for each rt_hash_bucket, we use a table of spinlocks
  * The size of this table is a power of two and depends on the number of CPUS.