diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
index edf386a020b9..bec9ac8b8fbe 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
@@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ ack:
 			 * processed, this avoids that the same error is
 			 * reported several times when replaying the batch.
 			 */
-			if (nfnl_err_add(&err_list, nlh, err, &extack) < 0) {
+			if (err == -ENOMEM ||
+			    nfnl_err_add(&err_list, nlh, err, &extack) < 0) {
 				/* We failed to enqueue an error, reset the
 				 * list of errors and send OOM to userspace
 				 * pointing to the batch header.