diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 65eac7739033..56272ac6dfd8 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -73,17 +73,13 @@ static struct kmem_cache *skbuff_fclone_cache __read_mostly;
 static void sock_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 				  struct pipe_buffer *buf)
 {
-	struct sk_buff *skb = (struct sk_buff *) buf->private;
-
-	kfree_skb(skb);
+	put_page(buf->page);
 }
 
 static void sock_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 				struct pipe_buffer *buf)
 {
-	struct sk_buff *skb = (struct sk_buff *) buf->private;
-
-	skb_get(skb);
+	get_page(buf->page);
 }
 
 static int sock_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
@@ -1334,9 +1330,19 @@ fault:
  */
 static void sock_spd_release(struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, unsigned int i)
 {
-	struct sk_buff *skb = (struct sk_buff *) spd->partial[i].private;
+	put_page(spd->pages[i]);
+}
 
-	kfree_skb(skb);
+static inline struct page *linear_to_page(struct page *page, unsigned int len,
+					  unsigned int offset)
+{
+	struct page *p = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+
+	if (!p)
+		return NULL;
+	memcpy(page_address(p) + offset, page_address(page) + offset, len);
+
+	return p;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1344,16 +1350,23 @@ static void sock_spd_release(struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, unsigned int i)
  */
 static inline int spd_fill_page(struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, struct page *page,
 				unsigned int len, unsigned int offset,
-				struct sk_buff *skb)
+				struct sk_buff *skb, int linear)
 {
 	if (unlikely(spd->nr_pages == PIPE_BUFFERS))
 		return 1;
 
+	if (linear) {
+		page = linear_to_page(page, len, offset);
+		if (!page)
+			return 1;
+	} else
+		get_page(page);
+
 	spd->pages[spd->nr_pages] = page;
 	spd->partial[spd->nr_pages].len = len;
 	spd->partial[spd->nr_pages].offset = offset;
-	spd->partial[spd->nr_pages].private = (unsigned long) skb_get(skb);
 	spd->nr_pages++;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1369,7 +1382,7 @@ static inline void __segment_seek(struct page **page, unsigned int *poff,
 static inline int __splice_segment(struct page *page, unsigned int poff,
 				   unsigned int plen, unsigned int *off,
 				   unsigned int *len, struct sk_buff *skb,
-				   struct splice_pipe_desc *spd)
+				   struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, int linear)
 {
 	if (!*len)
 		return 1;
@@ -1392,7 +1405,7 @@ static inline int __splice_segment(struct page *page, unsigned int poff,
 		/* the linear region may spread across several pages  */
 		flen = min_t(unsigned int, flen, PAGE_SIZE - poff);
 
-		if (spd_fill_page(spd, page, flen, poff, skb))
+		if (spd_fill_page(spd, page, flen, poff, skb, linear))
 			return 1;
 
 		__segment_seek(&page, &poff, &plen, flen);
@@ -1419,7 +1432,7 @@ static int __skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int *offset,
 	if (__splice_segment(virt_to_page(skb->data),
 			     (unsigned long) skb->data & (PAGE_SIZE - 1),
 			     skb_headlen(skb),
-			     offset, len, skb, spd))
+			     offset, len, skb, spd, 1))
 		return 1;
 
 	/*
@@ -1429,7 +1442,7 @@ static int __skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int *offset,
 		const skb_frag_t *f = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[seg];
 
 		if (__splice_segment(f->page, f->page_offset, f->size,
-				     offset, len, skb, spd))
+				     offset, len, skb, spd, 0))
 			return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -1442,7 +1455,7 @@ static int __skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int *offset,
  * the frag list, if such a thing exists. We'd probably need to recurse to
  * handle that cleanly.
  */
-int skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *__skb, unsigned int offset,
+int skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int offset,
 		    struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, unsigned int tlen,
 		    unsigned int flags)
 {
@@ -1455,16 +1468,6 @@ int skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *__skb, unsigned int offset,
 		.ops = &sock_pipe_buf_ops,
 		.spd_release = sock_spd_release,
 	};
-	struct sk_buff *skb;
-
-	/*
-	 * I'd love to avoid the clone here, but tcp_read_sock()
-	 * ignores reference counts and unconditonally kills the sk_buff
-	 * on return from the actor.
-	 */
-	skb = skb_clone(__skb, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (unlikely(!skb))
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/*
 	 * __skb_splice_bits() only fails if the output has no room left,
@@ -1488,15 +1491,9 @@ int skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *__skb, unsigned int offset,
 	}
 
 done:
-	/*
-	 * drop our reference to the clone, the pipe consumption will
-	 * drop the rest.
-	 */
-	kfree_skb(skb);
-
 	if (spd.nr_pages) {
+		struct sock *sk = skb->sk;
 		int ret;
-		struct sock *sk = __skb->sk;
 
 		/*
 		 * Drop the socket lock, otherwise we have reverse