diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h
index 01ffbe849683..1a3e4972c68f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h
@@ -521,15 +521,6 @@ enum nic_state {
 	STATE_RECOVERY = 3,	/* device recovering from PCI error */
 };
 
-/*
- * Alignment of the skb->head which wraps a page-allocated RX buffer
- *
- * The skb allocated to wrap an rx_buffer can have this alignment. Since
- * the data is memcpy'd from the rx_buf, it does not need to be equal to
- * NET_IP_ALIGN.
- */
-#define EFX_PAGE_SKB_ALIGN 2
-
 /* Forward declaration */
 struct efx_nic;
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c
index 8671bc199a9d..d12abc543975 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c
@@ -476,14 +476,18 @@ static struct sk_buff *efx_rx_mk_skb(struct efx_channel *channel,
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
 	/* Allocate an SKB to store the headers */
-	skb = netdev_alloc_skb(efx->net_dev, hdr_len + EFX_PAGE_SKB_ALIGN);
+	skb = netdev_alloc_skb(efx->net_dev,
+			       efx->rx_ip_align + efx->rx_prefix_size +
+			       hdr_len);
 	if (unlikely(skb == NULL))
 		return NULL;
 
 	EFX_BUG_ON_PARANOID(rx_buf->len < hdr_len);
 
-	skb_reserve(skb, EFX_PAGE_SKB_ALIGN);
-	memcpy(__skb_put(skb, hdr_len), eh, hdr_len);
+	memcpy(skb->data + efx->rx_ip_align, eh - efx->rx_prefix_size,
+	       efx->rx_prefix_size + hdr_len);
+	skb_reserve(skb, efx->rx_ip_align + efx->rx_prefix_size);
+	__skb_put(skb, hdr_len);
 
 	/* Append the remaining page(s) onto the frag list */
 	if (rx_buf->len > hdr_len) {