diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index de465368fc2c2..050a875d09c55 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb = __build_skb(data, frag_size);
 
-	if (skb && frag_size) {
+	if (likely(skb && frag_size)) {
 		skb->head_frag = 1;
 		skb_propagate_pfmemalloc(virt_to_head_page(data), skb);
 	}