diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 0c7274ac7ed5..4833ec7903ec 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -845,7 +845,8 @@ static inline unsigned long tcp_reqsk_timeout(struct request_sock *req)
 {
 	u64 timeout = (u64)req->timeout << req->num_timeout;
 
-	return (unsigned long)min_t(u64, timeout, TCP_RTO_MAX);
+	return (unsigned long)min_t(u64, timeout,
+				    tcp_rto_max(req->rsk_listener));
 }
 
 u32 tcp_delack_max(const struct sock *sk);