diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 156707207163..d29d4b819264 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -1781,11 +1781,13 @@ bool tcp_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	__skb_push(skb, hdrlen);
 
 no_coalesce:
+	limit = (u32)READ_ONCE(sk->sk_rcvbuf) + (u32)(READ_ONCE(sk->sk_sndbuf) >> 1);
+
 	/* Only socket owner can try to collapse/prune rx queues
 	 * to reduce memory overhead, so add a little headroom here.
 	 * Few sockets backlog are possibly concurrently non empty.
 	 */
-	limit = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_rcvbuf) + READ_ONCE(sk->sk_sndbuf) + 64*1024;
+	limit += 64 * 1024;
 
 	if (unlikely(sk_add_backlog(sk, skb, limit))) {
 		bh_unlock_sock(sk);