diff --git a/net/core/gro.c b/net/core/gro.c
index 506f83d715f8..4bac7ea6e025 100644
--- a/net/core/gro.c
+++ b/net/core/gro.c
@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	struct sk_buff *lp;
 	int segs;
 
+	/* Do not splice page pool based packets w/ non-page pool
+	 * packets. This can result in reference count issues as page
+	 * pool pages will not decrement the reference count and will
+	 * instead be immediately returned to the pool or have frag
+	 * count decremented.
+	 */
+	if (p->pp_recycle != skb->pp_recycle)
+		return -ETOOMANYREFS;
+
 	/* pairs with WRITE_ONCE() in netif_set_gro_max_size() */
 	gro_max_size = READ_ONCE(p->dev->gro_max_size);