diff --git a/net/mptcp/options.c b/net/mptcp/options.c
index 69cafaacc31bf..68361d28dc676 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/options.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/options.c
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ bool mptcp_update_rcv_data_fin(struct mptcp_sock *msk, u64 data_fin_seq, bool us
 	 * should match. If they mismatch, the peer is misbehaving and
 	 * we will prefer the most recent information.
 	 */
-	if (READ_ONCE(msk->rcv_data_fin) || !READ_ONCE(msk->first))
+	if (READ_ONCE(msk->rcv_data_fin))
 		return false;
 
 	WRITE_ONCE(msk->rcv_data_fin_seq,
diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index d4de8ae2e2a1a..fb24958d51067 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ static bool mptcp_check_data_fin(struct sock *sk)
 	u64 rcv_data_fin_seq;
 	bool ret = false;
 
-	if (__mptcp_check_fallback(msk) || !msk->first)
+	if (__mptcp_check_fallback(msk))
 		return ret;
 
 	/* Need to ack a DATA_FIN received from a peer while this side