diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst
index 5e93cd71f99f..ef2a334d373e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst
@@ -266,6 +266,18 @@ SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TX_SWHW:
   two separate messages will be looped to the socket's error queue,
   each containing just one timestamp.
 
+SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER:
+  Used in the receive software timestamp. Enabling the flag along with
+  SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE will not report the rx timestamp to the
+  userspace so that it can filter out the case where one process starts
+  first which turns on netstamp_needed_key through setting generation
+  flags like SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE, then another one only passing
+  SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE report flag could also get the rx timestamp.
+
+  SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER prevents the application from
+  being influenced by others and let the application finally choose
+  whether to report the timestamp in the receive path or not.
+
 New applications are encouraged to pass SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID to
 disambiguate timestamps and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY to operate
 regardless of the setting of sysctl net.core.tstamp_allow_data.
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h b/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h
index a2c66b3d7f0f..0042e91fa213 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/net_tstamp.h
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ enum {
 	SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TX_SWHW = (1<<14),
 	SOF_TIMESTAMPING_BIND_PHC = (1 << 15),
 	SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID_TCP = (1 << 16),
+	SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER = (1 << 17),
 
-	SOF_TIMESTAMPING_LAST = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID_TCP,
+	SOF_TIMESTAMPING_LAST = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER,
 	SOF_TIMESTAMPING_MASK = (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_LAST - 1) |
 				 SOF_TIMESTAMPING_LAST
 };
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 468b1239606c..c4488f6a3ce8 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -908,6 +908,10 @@ int sock_set_timestamping(struct sock *sk, int optname,
 	    !(val & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (val & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE &&
+	    val & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (val & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID &&
 	    !(sk->sk_tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID)) {
 		if (sk_is_tcp(sk)) {
diff --git a/net/ethtool/common.c b/net/ethtool/common.c
index 7257ae272296..6fde55a904b0 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/common.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/common.c
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ const char sof_timestamping_names[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
 	[const_ilog2(SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TX_SWHW)]  = "option-tx-swhw",
 	[const_ilog2(SOF_TIMESTAMPING_BIND_PHC)]     = "bind-phc",
 	[const_ilog2(SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID_TCP)]   = "option-id-tcp",
+	[const_ilog2(SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER)] = "option-rx-software-filter",
 };
 static_assert(ARRAY_SIZE(sof_timestamping_names) == __SOF_TIMESTAMPING_CNT);
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 8514257f4ecd..863cc6b8a208 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2235,6 +2235,7 @@ void tcp_recv_timestamp(struct msghdr *msg, const struct sock *sk,
 			struct scm_timestamping_internal *tss)
 {
 	int new_tstamp = sock_flag(sk, SOCK_TSTAMP_NEW);
+	u32 tsflags = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_tsflags);
 	bool has_timestamping = false;
 
 	if (tss->ts[0].tv_sec || tss->ts[0].tv_nsec) {
@@ -2274,14 +2275,16 @@ void tcp_recv_timestamp(struct msghdr *msg, const struct sock *sk,
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (READ_ONCE(sk->sk_tsflags) & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE)
+		if (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE &&
+		    (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE ||
+		     !(tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER)))
 			has_timestamping = true;
 		else
 			tss->ts[0] = (struct timespec64) {0};
 	}
 
 	if (tss->ts[2].tv_sec || tss->ts[2].tv_nsec) {
-		if (READ_ONCE(sk->sk_tsflags) & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE)
+		if (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE)
 			has_timestamping = true;
 		else
 			tss->ts[2] = (struct timespec64) {0};
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index fcbdd5bc47ac..5ede4146198c 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -946,7 +946,10 @@ void __sock_recv_timestamp(struct msghdr *msg, struct sock *sk,
 
 	memset(&tss, 0, sizeof(tss));
 	tsflags = READ_ONCE(sk->sk_tsflags);
-	if ((tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE) &&
+	if ((tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE &&
+	     (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE ||
+	     skb_is_err_queue(skb) ||
+	     !(tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_SOFTWARE_FILTER))) &&
 	    ktime_to_timespec64_cond(skb->tstamp, tss.ts + 0))
 		empty = 0;
 	if (shhwtstamps &&
