diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index 3eeb50a27b89..d37a9401e182 100644
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ static void tipc_sk_enqueue(struct sk_buff_head *inputq, struct sock *sk,
 
 		/* Try backlog, compensating for double-counted bytes */
 		dcnt = &tipc_sk(sk)->dupl_rcvcnt;
-		if (sk->sk_backlog.len)
+		if (!sk->sk_backlog.len)
 			atomic_set(dcnt, 0);
 		lim = rcvbuf_limit(sk, skb) + atomic_read(dcnt);
 		if (likely(!sk_add_backlog(sk, skb, lim)))