--- x/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ y/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -594,6 +594,10 @@ static void *kmalloc_reserve(unsigned in
 	 */
 	*size = (unsigned int)obj_size;
 
+	if (obj_size > (PAGE_SIZE << MAX_PAGE_ORDER)) {
+		obj = NULL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Try a regular allocation, when that fails and we're not entitled
 	 * to the reserves, fail.
@@ -657,7 +661,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int
 	    likely(node == NUMA_NO_NODE || node == numa_mem_id()))
 		skb = napi_skb_cache_get();
 	else
-		skb = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cache, gfp_mask & ~GFP_DMA, node);
+		skb = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cache, gfp_mask & ~(GFP_DMA | __GFP_HIGHMEM), node);
 	if (unlikely(!skb))
 		return NULL;
 	prefetchw(skb);