diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index f80b6999ca1c..08d9915d50c0 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -5882,9 +5882,13 @@ static int pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear(struct sk_buff *skb, const u32 off,
 	if (skb_has_frag_list(skb))
 		skb_clone_fraglist(skb);
 
-	if (k == 0) {
-		/* split line is in frag list */
-		pskb_carve_frag_list(skb, shinfo, off - pos, gfp_mask);
+	/* split line is in frag list */
+	if (k == 0 && pskb_carve_frag_list(skb, shinfo, off - pos, gfp_mask)) {
+		/* skb_frag_unref() is not needed here as shinfo->nr_frags = 0. */
+		if (skb_has_frag_list(skb))
+			kfree_skb_list(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list);
+		kfree(data);
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	skb_release_data(skb);