diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 3e7675cfd57e..c23de6622724 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -4385,6 +4385,20 @@ static size_t stmmac_tso_header_size(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	return size;
 }
 
+/* STM32MP151 (dwmac v4.2) and STM32MP25xx (dwmac v5.3) states for TDES2 normal
+ * (read format) descriptor that the maximum header length supported for the
+ * TSO feature is 1023 bytes.
+ *
+ * While IPv4 is limited to MAC+VLAN+IPv4+ext+TCP+ext = 138 bytes, the IPv6
+ * extension headers aren't similarly limited.
+ */
+static bool stmmac_tso_valid_packet(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	size_t header_len = stmmac_tso_header_size(skb);
+
+	return header_len <= 1023;
+}
+
 /**
  *  stmmac_tso_xmit - Tx entry point of the driver for oversized frames (TSO)
  *  @skb : the socket buffer
@@ -4945,7 +4959,8 @@ static netdev_features_t stmmac_features_check(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	if (skb_is_gso(skb)) {
 		queue = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
-		if (!stmmac_tso_channel_permitted(netdev_priv(dev), queue))
+		if (!stmmac_tso_channel_permitted(netdev_priv(dev), queue) ||
+		    !stmmac_tso_valid_packet(skb))
 			features &= ~NETIF_F_GSO_MASK;
 	}