diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1c6142860349..040904018659 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 92d31920b84f258badf206eea8aaf5ac677ac535
+refs/heads/master: 28be5440044d5b19b0331f79fb3e81845ad6d77e
diff --git a/trunk/net/dccp/dccp.h b/trunk/net/dccp/dccp.h
index 07dcbe73b50c..3af3320194f0 100644
--- a/trunk/net/dccp/dccp.h
+++ b/trunk/net/dccp/dccp.h
@@ -72,7 +72,14 @@ extern void dccp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo);
 /* RFC 1122, 4.2.3.1 initial RTO value */
 #define DCCP_TIMEOUT_INIT ((unsigned)(3 * HZ))
 
-#define DCCP_RTO_MAX ((unsigned)(120 * HZ)) /* FIXME: using TCP value */
+/*
+ * The maximum back-off value for retransmissions. This is needed for
+ *  - retransmitting client-Requests (sec. 8.1.1),
+ *  - retransmitting Close/CloseReq when closing (sec. 8.3),
+ *  - feature-negotiation retransmission (sec. 6.6.3),
+ *  - Acks in client-PARTOPEN state (sec. 8.1.5).
+ */
+#define DCCP_RTO_MAX ((unsigned)(64 * HZ))
 
 /*
  * RTT sampling: sanity bounds and fallback RTT value from RFC 4340, section 3.4