diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index fa25d7e718b3..790a34291467 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -342,3 +342,30 @@ filesystems:
 ``/proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit`` is a read/write file for
 setting/getting the maximum number of pages that can be used for servicing
 requests in FUSE.
+
+``/proc/sys/fs/fuse/default_request_timeout`` is a read/write file for
+setting/getting the default timeout (in minutes) 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 minutes) 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 a value 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. Please also note that the timeouts are not 100%
+precise (eg you may set 10 minutes but the timeout may kick in after 11
+minutes).
diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index 4c3998c28519..b9f75e23ca17 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@
 
 /** Maximum of max_pages received in init_out */
 extern unsigned int fuse_max_pages_limit;
+/*
+ * Default timeout (in minutes) for the server to reply to a request
+ * before the connection is aborted, if no timeout was specified on mount.
+ */
+extern unsigned int fuse_default_req_timeout;
+/*
+ * Max timeout (in minutes) for the server to reply to a request before
+ * the connection is aborted.
+ */
+extern unsigned int fuse_max_req_timeout;
 
 /** List of active connections */
 extern struct list_head fuse_conn_list;
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index e5c7a214a222..40656f60d7ac 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(fuse_mutex);
 static int set_global_limit(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp);
 
 unsigned int fuse_max_pages_limit = 256;
+/* default is no timeout */
+unsigned int fuse_default_req_timeout = 0;
+unsigned int fuse_max_req_timeout = 0;
 
 unsigned max_user_bgreq;
 module_param_call(max_user_bgreq, set_global_limit, param_get_uint,
@@ -1701,8 +1704,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fuse_init_fs_context_submount);
 
 static void fuse_init_fc_timeout(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_fs_context *ctx)
 {
-	if (ctx->req_timeout) {
-		if (check_mul_overflow(ctx->req_timeout * 60, HZ, &fc->timeout.req_timeout))
+	unsigned int timeout = ctx->req_timeout ?: fuse_default_req_timeout;
+
+	if (fuse_max_req_timeout) {
+		if (!timeout)
+			timeout = fuse_max_req_timeout;
+		else
+			timeout = min(timeout, fuse_max_req_timeout);
+	}
+
+	if (timeout) {
+		if (check_mul_overflow(timeout * 60, HZ, &fc->timeout.req_timeout))
 			fc->timeout.req_timeout = U32_MAX;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->timeout.list);
 		spin_lock_init(&fc->timeout.lock);
diff --git a/fs/fuse/sysctl.c b/fs/fuse/sysctl.c
index b272bb333005..e70b5269c16d 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/sysctl.c
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ static struct ctl_table_header *fuse_table_header;
 /* Bound by fuse_init_out max_pages, which is a u16 */
 static unsigned int sysctl_fuse_max_pages_limit = 65535;
 
+static unsigned int sysctl_fuse_max_req_timeout_limit = U16_MAX;
+
 static struct ctl_table fuse_sysctl_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_pages_limit",
@@ -23,6 +25,24 @@ static struct ctl_table fuse_sysctl_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ONE,
 		.extra2		= &sysctl_fuse_max_pages_limit,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "default_request_timeout",
+		.data		= &fuse_default_req_timeout,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(fuse_default_req_timeout),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_douintvec_minmax,
+		.extra1         = SYSCTL_ZERO,
+		.extra2		= &sysctl_fuse_max_req_timeout_limit,
+	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "max_request_timeout",
+		.data		= &fuse_max_req_timeout,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(fuse_max_req_timeout),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_douintvec_minmax,
+		.extra1         = SYSCTL_ZERO,
+		.extra2		= &sysctl_fuse_max_req_timeout_limit,
+	},
 };
 
 int fuse_sysctl_register(void)
