diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 7e2e502ef519..5c3b906aeef3 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -5418,8 +5418,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_vlan_untag(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	skb = skb_share_check(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (unlikely(!skb))
 		goto err_free;
-
-	if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, VLAN_HLEN)))
+	/* We may access the two bytes after vlan_hdr in vlan_set_encap_proto(). */
+	if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, VLAN_HLEN + sizeof(unsigned short))))
 		goto err_free;
 
 	vhdr = (struct vlan_hdr *)skb->data;