diff --git a/libselinux/include/selinux/selinux.h b/libselinux/include/selinux/selinux.h
index a34d54fc..f54f236b 100644
--- a/libselinux/include/selinux/selinux.h
+++ b/libselinux/include/selinux/selinux.h
@@ -255,6 +255,19 @@ extern int security_compute_user_raw(const char * scon,
 				     const char *username,
 				     char *** con);
 
+/* Validate a transition. This determines whether a transition from scon to newcon
+   using tcon as the target for object class tclass is valid in the loaded policy.
+   This checks against the mlsvalidatetrans and validatetrans constraints in the loaded policy.
+   Returns 0 if allowed and -1 if an error occured with errno set */
+extern int security_validatetrans(const char *scon,
+				  const char *tcon,
+				  security_class_t tclass,
+				  const char *newcon);
+extern int security_validatetrans_raw(const char *scon,
+				      const char *tcon,
+				      security_class_t tclass,
+				      const char *newcon);
+
 /* Load a policy configuration. */
 extern int security_load_policy(void *data, size_t len);
 
diff --git a/libselinux/man/man3/security_compute_av.3 b/libselinux/man/man3/security_compute_av.3
index 2aade5fe..a7181bed 100644
--- a/libselinux/man/man3/security_compute_av.3
+++ b/libselinux/man/man3/security_compute_av.3
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .TH "security_compute_av" "3" "1 January 2004" "russell@coker.com.au" "SELinux API documentation"
 .SH "NAME"
 security_compute_av, security_compute_av_flags, security_compute_create, security_compute_create_name, security_compute_relabel,
-security_compute_member, security_compute_user, security_get_initial_context \- query
+security_compute_member, security_compute_user, security_validatetrans, security_get_initial_context \- query
 the SELinux policy database in the kernel
 .
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ the SELinux policy database in the kernel
 .sp
 .BI "int security_compute_user_raw(char *" scon ", const char *" username ", char ***" con );
 .sp
+.BI "int security_validatetrans(char *" scon ", const char *" tcon ", security_class_t "tclass ", char *" newcon );
+.sp
+.BI "int security_validatetrans_raw(char *" scon ", const char *" tcon ", security_class_t "tclass ", char *" newcon );
+.sp
 .BI "int security_get_initial_context(const char *" name ", char **" con );
 .sp
 .BI "int security_get_initial_context_raw(const char *" name ", char **" con );
@@ -100,6 +104,12 @@ is used to determine the set of user contexts that can be reached from a
 source context. It is mainly used by
 .BR get_ordered_context_list ().
 
+.BR security_validatetrans ()
+is used to determine if a transition from scon to newcon using tcon as the object
+is valid for object class tclass. This checks against the mlsvalidatetrans and
+validatetrans constraints in the loaded policy. Returns 0 if allowed, and -1
+if an error occured with errno set.
+
 .BR security_get_initial_context ()
 is used to get the context of a kernel initial security identifier specified by 
 .I name
@@ -111,6 +121,7 @@ is used to get the context of a kernel initial security identifier specified by
 .BR \%security_compute_relabel_raw (),
 .BR \%security_compute_member_raw (),
 .BR \%security_compute_user_raw ()
+.BR \%security_validatetrans_raw ()
 and
 .BR \%security_get_initial_context_raw ()
 behave identically to their non-raw counterparts but do not perform context
diff --git a/libselinux/man/man3/security_validatetrans.c b/libselinux/man/man3/security_validatetrans.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a60bca4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libselinux/man/man3/security_validatetrans.c
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man3/security_compute_av.3
diff --git a/libselinux/man/man3/security_validatetrans_raw.c b/libselinux/man/man3/security_validatetrans_raw.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a60bca4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libselinux/man/man3/security_validatetrans_raw.c
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man3/security_compute_av.3
diff --git a/libselinux/src/selinux_internal.h b/libselinux/src/selinux_internal.h
index 70b5025d..acd59c7c 100644
--- a/libselinux/src/selinux_internal.h
+++ b/libselinux/src/selinux_internal.h
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ hidden_proto(selinux_mkload_policy)
     hidden_proto(security_compute_create_name_raw)
     hidden_proto(security_compute_member_raw)
     hidden_proto(security_compute_relabel_raw)
+    hidden_proto(security_validatetrans)
+    hidden_proto(security_validatetrans_raw)
     hidden_proto(is_selinux_enabled)
     hidden_proto(is_selinux_mls_enabled)
     hidden_proto(freecon)
diff --git a/libselinux/src/validatetrans.c b/libselinux/src/validatetrans.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9e745a91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libselinux/src/validatetrans.c
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#include "selinux_internal.h"
+#include "policy.h"
+#include "mapping.h"
+
+int security_validatetrans_raw(const char *scon,
+			       const char *tcon,
+			       security_class_t tclass,
+			       const char *newcon)
+{
+	char path[PATH_MAX];
+	char *buf = NULL;
+	int size, bufsz;
+	int fd, ret = -1;
+	errno = ENOENT;
+
+	if (!selinux_mnt) {
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	snprintf(path, sizeof path, "%s/validatetrans", selinux_mnt);
+	fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	errno = EINVAL;
+	size = selinux_page_size;
+	buf = malloc(size);
+	if (!buf) {
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	bufsz = snprintf(buf, size, "%s %s %hu %s", scon, tcon, unmap_class(tclass), newcon);
+	if (bufsz >= size) {
+		// It got truncated 
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	// clear errno for write()
+	errno = 0;
+	ret = write(fd, buf, strlen(buf));
+	if (ret > 0) {
+		// The kernel returns the bytes written on success, not 0 as noted in the commit message
+		ret = 0;
+	}
+out:
+	free(buf);
+	close(fd);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+hidden_def(security_validatetrans_raw)
+
+int security_validatetrans(const char *scon,
+			   const char *tcon,
+			   security_class_t tclass,
+			   const char *newcon)
+{
+	int ret = -1;
+	char *rscon = NULL;
+	char *rtcon = NULL;
+	char *rnewcon = NULL;
+
+	if (selinux_trans_to_raw_context(scon, &rscon)) {
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (selinux_trans_to_raw_context(tcon, &rtcon)) {
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (selinux_trans_to_raw_context(newcon, &rnewcon)) {
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	ret = security_validatetrans_raw(rscon, rtcon, tclass, rnewcon);
+
+out:
+	freecon(rnewcon);
+	freecon(rtcon);
+	freecon(rscon);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+hidden_def(security_validatetrans)
diff --git a/libselinux/utils/.gitignore b/libselinux/utils/.gitignore
index 5cd01025..aba18a3c 100644
--- a/libselinux/utils/.gitignore
+++ b/libselinux/utils/.gitignore
@@ -25,3 +25,4 @@ setenforce
 setfilecon
 togglesebool
 selinux_check_access
+validatetrans
diff --git a/libselinux/utils/validatetrans.c b/libselinux/utils/validatetrans.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1db33e66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libselinux/utils/validatetrans.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <selinux/selinux.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	security_class_t tclass;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (argc != 5) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "usage:  %s scontext tcontext tclass newcontext\n",
+			argv[0]);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	tclass = string_to_security_class(argv[3]);
+	if (!tclass) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s:  invalid class '%s'\n", argv[0], argv[3]);
+		exit(2);
+	}
+
+	ret = security_validatetrans(argv[1], argv[2], tclass, argv[4]);
+	printf("security_validatetrans returned %d errno: %s\n", ret, strerror(errno));
+
+	return ret;
+}
