diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index 47499a1742bd..3d5a2b5cbba0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -332,3 +332,34 @@ Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32-bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes
 on a 64-bit one.
 The current default value for ``max_user_watches`` is 4% of the
 available low memory, divided by the "watch" cost in bytes.
+
+5. /proc/sys/fs/fuse - Configuration options for FUSE filesystems
+=====================================================================
+
+This directory contains the following configuration options for FUSE
+filesystems:
+
+``/proc/sys/fs/fuse/default_request_timeout`` is a read/write file for
+setting/getting the default timeout (in seconds) for a fuse server to
+reply to a kernel-issued request in the event where the server did not
+specify a timeout at mount. If the server set a timeout,
+then default_request_timeout will be ignored.  The default
+"default_request_timeout" is set to 0. 0 indicates a no-op (eg
+requests will not have a default request timeout set if no timeout was
+specified by the server).
+
+``/proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_request_timeout`` is a read/write file for
+setting/getting the maximum timeout (in seconds) for a fuse server to
+reply to a kernel-issued request. A value greater than 0 automatically opts
+the server into a timeout that will be at most "max_request_timeout", even if
+the server did not specify a timeout and default_request_timeout is set to 0.
+If max_request_timeout is greater than 0 and the server set a timeout greater
+than max_request_timeout or default_request_timeout is set to greater than
+max_request_timeout, the system will use max_request_timeout as the timeout.
+0 indicates a no-op (eg requests will not have an upper bound on the timeout
+and if the server did not request a timeout and default_request_timeout was not
+set, there will be no timeout).
+
+Please note that for the timeout options, if the server does not respond to
+the request by the time the timeout elapses, then the connection to the fuse
+server will be aborted.
diff --git a/fs/fuse/Makefile b/fs/fuse/Makefile
index 6e0228c6d0cb..cd4ef3e08ebf 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/Makefile
+++ b/fs/fuse/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FUSE_FS) += fuse.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CUSE) += cuse.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_FS) += virtiofs.o
 
-fuse-y := dev.o dir.o file.o inode.o control.o xattr.o acl.o readdir.o ioctl.o
+fuse-y := dev.o dir.o file.o inode.o control.o xattr.o acl.o readdir.o ioctl.o sysctl.o
 fuse-y += iomode.o
 fuse-$(CONFIG_FUSE_DAX) += dax.o
 fuse-$(CONFIG_FUSE_PASSTHROUGH) += passthrough.o
diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index 97dacafa4289..04daf366735d 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -47,6 +47,14 @@
 /** Number of dentries for each connection in the control filesystem */
 #define FUSE_CTL_NUM_DENTRIES 5
 
+/*
+ * Default timeout (in seconds) for the server to reply to a request
+ * if no timeout was specified on mount
+ */
+extern u32 fuse_default_req_timeout;
+/** Max timeout (in seconds) for the server to reply to a request */
+extern u32 fuse_max_req_timeout;
+
 /** List of active connections */
 extern struct list_head fuse_conn_list;
 
@@ -1480,4 +1488,12 @@ ssize_t fuse_passthrough_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 				      size_t len, unsigned int flags);
 ssize_t fuse_passthrough_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+int fuse_sysctl_register(void);
+void fuse_sysctl_unregister(void);
+#else
+static inline int fuse_sysctl_register(void) { return 0; }
+static inline void fuse_sysctl_unregister(void) { return; }
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
+
 #endif /* _FS_FUSE_I_H */
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index 9e69006fc026..cf333448f2d3 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(fuse_mutex);
 
 static int set_global_limit(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp);
 
+/* default is no timeout */
+u32 fuse_default_req_timeout = 0;
+u32 fuse_max_req_timeout = 0;
+
 unsigned max_user_bgreq;
 module_param_call(max_user_bgreq, set_global_limit, param_get_uint,
 		  &max_user_bgreq, 0644);
@@ -1678,6 +1682,7 @@ int fuse_fill_super_common(struct super_block *sb, struct fuse_fs_context *ctx)
 	struct fuse_conn *fc = fm->fc;
 	struct inode *root;
 	struct dentry *root_dentry;
+	u32 req_timeout;
 	int err;
 
 	err = -EINVAL;
@@ -1730,10 +1735,16 @@ int fuse_fill_super_common(struct super_block *sb, struct fuse_fs_context *ctx)
 	fc->group_id = ctx->group_id;
 	fc->legacy_opts_show = ctx->legacy_opts_show;
 	fc->max_read = max_t(unsigned int, 4096, ctx->max_read);
-	fc->req_timeout = ctx->req_timeout * HZ;
 	fc->destroy = ctx->destroy;
 	fc->no_control = ctx->no_control;
 	fc->no_force_umount = ctx->no_force_umount;
+	req_timeout = ctx->req_timeout ?: fuse_default_req_timeout;
+	if (!fuse_max_req_timeout)
+		fc->req_timeout = req_timeout * HZ;
+	else if (!req_timeout)
+		fc->req_timeout = fuse_max_req_timeout * HZ;
+	else
+		fc->req_timeout = min(req_timeout, fuse_max_req_timeout) * HZ;
 
 	err = -ENOMEM;
 	root = fuse_get_root_inode(sb, ctx->rootmode);
@@ -2046,8 +2057,14 @@ static int __init fuse_fs_init(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto out3;
 
+	err = fuse_sysctl_register();
+	if (err)
+		goto out4;
+
 	return 0;
 
+ out4:
+	unregister_filesystem(&fuse_fs_type);
  out3:
 	unregister_fuseblk();
  out2:
diff --git a/fs/fuse/sysctl.c b/fs/fuse/sysctl.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c87bb0ecbfa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/fuse/sysctl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+* linux/fs/fuse/fuse_sysctl.c
+*
+* Sysctl interface to fuse parameters
+*/
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+
+#include "fuse_i.h"
+
+static struct ctl_table_header *fuse_table_header;
+
+static struct ctl_table fuse_sysctl_table[] = {
+	{
+		.procname	= "default_request_timeout",
+		.data		= &fuse_default_req_timeout,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(fuse_default_req_timeout),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_douintvec,
+	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "max_request_timeout",
+		.data		= &fuse_max_req_timeout,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(fuse_max_req_timeout),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_douintvec,
+	},
+};
+
+int fuse_sysctl_register(void)
+{
+	fuse_table_header = register_sysctl("fs/fuse", fuse_sysctl_table);
+	if (!fuse_table_header)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void fuse_sysctl_unregister(void)
+{
+	unregister_sysctl_table(fuse_table_header);
+	fuse_table_header = NULL;
+}
