diff --git a/pkg/lwip/Makefile b/pkg/lwip/Makefile
index 379093a031a6..8a84d402f1e9 100644
--- a/pkg/lwip/Makefile
+++ b/pkg/lwip/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PKG_NAME=lwip
 PKG_URL=git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/lwip.git
-# lwIP v2.1.0
-PKG_VERSION=e6a8415df332ee34d7af02255b2aa1e8ee74348f
+# lwIP v2.1.2
+PKG_VERSION=159e31b689577dbf69cf0683bbaffbd71fa5ee10
 PKG_LICENSE=BSD-3-Clause
 
 LWIP_MODULES         = lwip_api lwip_core lwip_ipv4 lwip_ipv6 \
diff --git a/pkg/lwip/patches/0001-lowpan6.c-Fix-IEEE-802.15.4-address-setting.patch b/pkg/lwip/patches/0001-lowpan6.c-Fix-IEEE-802.15.4-address-setting.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 793da70f4e9d..000000000000
--- a/pkg/lwip/patches/0001-lowpan6.c-Fix-IEEE-802.15.4-address-setting.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From ae1128a138dbf7b14886853bd149757b03859cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Martine Lenders <m.lenders@fu-berlin.de>
-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 21:21:18 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] lowpan6.c: Fix IEEE 802.15.4 address setting
-
-Reverts a regression introduced in
-3a8af612b3b818a89de5846cc9b046756af184cc:
-
-Use hardware address fetched from neighbor cache *not* the hardware
-address of the interface as destination address.
----
- src/netif/lowpan6.c | 10 +++++-----
- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/netif/lowpan6.c b/src/netif/lowpan6.c
-index 5769522..7f0d276 100644
---- a/src/netif/lowpan6.c
-+++ b/src/netif/lowpan6.c
-@@ -630,11 +630,11 @@ lowpan6_output(struct netif *netif, struct pbuf *q, const ip6_addr_t *ip6addr)
-   }
- 
-   /* Send out the packet using the returned hardware address. */
--  result = lowpan6_hwaddr_to_addr(netif, &dest);
--  if (result != ERR_OK) {
--    MIB2_STATS_NETIF_INC(netif, ifoutdiscards);
--    return result;
--  }
-+  dest.addr_len = netif->hwaddr_len;
-+  /* XXX: Inferring the length of the source address from the destination address
-+   * is not correct for IEEE 802.15.4, but currently we don't get this information
-+   * from the neighbor cache */
-+  SMEMCPY(dest.addr, hwaddr, netif->hwaddr_len);
-   MIB2_STATS_NETIF_INC(netif, ifoutucastpkts);
-   return lowpan6_frag(netif, q, &src, &dest);
- }
--- 
-2.7.4
-