diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 4a8ec457310fbd57e6b62e0a0f8ae6c22f2463fa..d09203c63264d2d8c11f7b40d42200f82934213b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -274,13 +274,6 @@ static void tcp_v4_mtu_reduced(struct sock *sk)
 	struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
 	u32 mtu = tcp_sk(sk)->mtu_info;
 
-	/* We are not interested in TCP_LISTEN and open_requests (SYN-ACKs
-	 * send out by Linux are always <576bytes so they should go through
-	 * unfragmented).
-	 */
-	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN)
-		return;
-
 	dst = inet_csk_update_pmtu(sk, mtu);
 	if (!dst)
 		return;
@@ -408,6 +401,13 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 			goto out;
 
 		if (code == ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED) { /* PMTU discovery (RFC1191) */
+			/* We are not interested in TCP_LISTEN and open_requests
+			 * (SYN-ACKs send out by Linux are always <576bytes so
+			 * they should go through unfragmented).
+			 */
+			if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN)
+				goto out;
+
 			tp->mtu_info = info;
 			if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
 				tcp_v4_mtu_reduced(sk);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 9b6460055df5683d70dea9d3f09d24c325ee89e7..f6d629fd6aee152aaff674a03db7a3dd0f194134 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -389,6 +389,13 @@ static void tcp_v6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
 	}
 
 	if (type == ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG) {
+		/* We are not interested in TCP_LISTEN and open_requests
+		 * (SYN-ACKs send out by Linux are always <576bytes so
+		 * they should go through unfragmented).
+		 */
+		if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN)
+			goto out;
+
 		tp->mtu_info = ntohl(info);
 		if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk))
 			tcp_v6_mtu_reduced(sk);