diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 821c7f45d2a7..6f2bb860e051 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ struct sk_buff {
 	union {
 		__u32		mark;
 		__u32		dropcount;
-		__u32		avail_size;
+		__u32		reserved_tailroom;
 	};
 
 	sk_buff_data_t		inner_transport_header;
@@ -1447,7 +1447,10 @@ static inline int skb_tailroom(const struct sk_buff *skb)
  */
 static inline int skb_availroom(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	return skb_is_nonlinear(skb) ? 0 : skb->avail_size - skb->len;
+	if (skb_is_nonlinear(skb))
+		return 0;
+
+	return skb->end - skb->tail - skb->reserved_tailroom;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 47e854fcae24..e22020790709 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ struct sk_buff *sk_stream_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t gfp)
 			 * Make sure that we have exactly size bytes
 			 * available to the caller, no more, no less.
 			 */
-			skb->avail_size = size;
+			skb->reserved_tailroom = skb->end - skb->tail - size;
 			return skb;
 		}
 		__kfree_skb(skb);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index e2b4461074da..817fbb396bc8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1298,7 +1298,6 @@ static void __pskb_trim_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int len)
 	eat = min_t(int, len, skb_headlen(skb));
 	if (eat) {
 		__skb_pull(skb, eat);
-		skb->avail_size -= eat;
 		len -= eat;
 		if (!len)
 			return;