diff --git a/src/decode.h b/src/decode.h
index 21d09199ac..aa31d49275 100644
--- a/src/decode.h
+++ b/src/decode.h
@@ -471,7 +471,12 @@ typedef struct DecodeThreadVars_
  *  \todo the mutex destroy & init is necessary because of the memset, reconsider
  */
 #define PACKET_RECYCLE(p) do {                  \
-        (p)->recursion_level = 0; \
+        CLEAR_ADDR(&(p)->src);                   \
+        CLEAR_ADDR(&(p)->dst);                   \
+        (p)->sp = 0;                            \
+        (p)->dp = 0;                            \
+        (p)->proto = 0;                         \
+        (p)->recursion_level = 0;               \
         (p)->flags = 0; \
         (p)->flowflags = 0; \
         (p)->flow = NULL; \
diff --git a/src/detect-ack.c b/src/detect-ack.c
index 27b3190814..dd6f75d369 100644
--- a/src/detect-ack.c
+++ b/src/detect-ack.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int DetectAckMatch(ThreadVars *t, DetectEngineThreadCtx *det_ctx,
     DetectAckData *data = (DetectAckData *)m->ctx;
 
     /* This is only needed on TCP packets */
-    if (IPPROTO_TCP != p->proto) {
+    if (!(PKT_IS_TCP(p))) {
         return 0;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/detect-seq.c b/src/detect-seq.c
index 67873991d5..f4bd17388d 100644
--- a/src/detect-seq.c
+++ b/src/detect-seq.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static int DetectSeqMatch(ThreadVars *t, DetectEngineThreadCtx *det_ctx,
     DetectSeqData *data = (DetectSeqData *)m->ctx;
 
     /* This is only needed on TCP packets */
-    if (IPPROTO_TCP != p->proto) {
+    if (!(PKT_IS_TCP(p))) {
         return 0;
     }