diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index c4619a428d9b11f86648e1971645c2d312a99a8b..f8f234708b984c58addf22edcef14a93d29b4df2 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -344,6 +344,13 @@ extern void	      skb_over_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, int len,
 				     void *here);
 extern void	      skb_under_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, int len,
 				      void *here);
+extern void	      skb_truesize_bug(struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+static inline void skb_truesize_check(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (unlikely((int)skb->truesize < sizeof(struct sk_buff) + skb->len))
+		skb_truesize_bug(skb);
+}
 
 extern int skb_append_datato_frags(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			int getfrag(void *from, char *to, int offset,
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index af2b0544586e73ad6a0420f5a4bcaec527250ca4..ff8b0dad7b0fcb5831f0801e4489fce01944d8ab 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ static inline void sk_stream_set_owner_r(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk)
 
 static inline void sk_stream_free_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+	skb_truesize_check(skb);
 	sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK);
 	sk->sk_wmem_queued   -= skb->truesize;
 	sk->sk_forward_alloc += skb->truesize;
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 09464fa8d72f8b10c881b44678e8aa1084a3bcfb..fb3770f9c09405f3dce34e2b429e74d4a9761508 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ void skb_under_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, int sz, void *here)
 	BUG();
 }
 
+void skb_truesize_bug(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	printk(KERN_ERR "SKB BUG: Invalid truesize (%u) "
+	       "len=%u, sizeof(sk_buff)=%Zd\n",
+	       skb->truesize, skb->len, sizeof(struct sk_buff));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_truesize_bug);
+
 /* 	Allocate a new skbuff. We do this ourselves so we can fill in a few
  *	'private' fields and also do memory statistics to find all the
  *	[BEEP] leaks.
diff --git a/net/core/stream.c b/net/core/stream.c
index 35e25259fd95712a0145853eeea4f01493ad5599..e9489696f694540bfb90d12aba6e1cd3c5dd1d57 100644
--- a/net/core/stream.c
+++ b/net/core/stream.c
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ void sk_stream_rfree(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct sock *sk = skb->sk;
 
+	skb_truesize_check(skb);
 	atomic_sub(skb->truesize, &sk->sk_rmem_alloc);
 	sk->sk_forward_alloc += skb->truesize;
 }