diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e0a1cb040..065acb094 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1292,6 +1292,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "libc",
  "log",
+ "net_gen",
  "thiserror",
  "vmm-sys-util",
 ]
diff --git a/tpm/Cargo.toml b/tpm/Cargo.toml
index b915deee8..2bee810b7 100644
--- a/tpm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tpm/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ anyhow = "1.0.66"
 byteorder = "1.4.3"
 libc = "0.2.138"
 log = "0.4.17"
+net_gen = { path = "../net_gen" }
 thiserror = "1.0.37"
 vmm-sys-util = "0.11.0"
diff --git a/tpm/src/emulator.rs b/tpm/src/emulator.rs
index 6398ce730..86422de9e 100644
--- a/tpm/src/emulator.rs
+++ b/tpm/src/emulator.rs
@@ -143,6 +143,27 @@ impl Emulator {
         self.run_control_cmd(Commands::CmdSetDatafd, &mut res, 0, mem::size_of::<u32>())?;
         debug!("data fd in cloud-hypervisor = {:?}", fds[0]);
         self.data_fd = fds[0];
+
+        // SAFETY: FFI calls and return value of the unsafe call is checked
+        unsafe {
+            let tv = net_gen::iff::timeval {
+                tv_sec: 0,
+                tv_usec: 100000, // Set recv timeout to 100ms
+            };
+            let ret = net_gen::setsockopt(
+                fds[0],
+                net_gen::iff::SOL_SOCKET as i32,
+                net_gen::iff::SO_RCVTIMEO as i32,
+                &tv as *const _ as *const libc::c_void,
+                std::mem::size_of::<net_gen::iff::timeval>() as u32,
+            );
+            if ret == -1 {
+                return Err(Error::PrepareDataFd(anyhow!(
+                    "Failed to set receive timeout on data fd socket. Error Code {:?}",
+                    std::io::Error::last_os_error()
+                )));
+            }
+        }
         self.control_socket.set_datafd(fds[0]);
         Ok(())
     }
diff --git a/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs b/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
index 69558cc03..b782319d4 100644
--- a/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
+++ b/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
@@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ fn vmm_thread_rules(
         (libc::SYS_sendto, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_set_robust_list, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_setsid, vec![]),
+        (libc::SYS_setsockopt, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_shutdown, vec![]),
         (libc::SYS_sigaltstack, vec![]),
         (