diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 0335285f3918..49935d5bb5c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -230,6 +230,14 @@ tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
 	Path MTU discovery (MTU probing).  If MTU probing is enabled,
 	this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
 
+tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
+	TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
+	as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
+	If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
+	it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
+
+	Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
+
 tcp_congestion_control - STRING
 	Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
 	connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
index 7adf4386ac8f..bf619a67ec03 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 {
 #endif
 	int sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing;
 	int sysctl_tcp_base_mss;
+	int sysctl_tcp_min_snd_mss;
 	int sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold;
 	u32 sysctl_tcp_probe_interval;
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index 85713adf2770..e202babb14d6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ static int ip_local_port_range_min[] = { 1, 1 };
 static int ip_local_port_range_max[] = { 65535, 65535 };
 static int tcp_adv_win_scale_min = -31;
 static int tcp_adv_win_scale_max = 31;
+static int tcp_min_snd_mss_min = TCP_MIN_SND_MSS;
+static int tcp_min_snd_mss_max = 65535;
 static int ip_ttl_min = 1;
 static int ip_ttl_max = 255;
 static int tcp_syn_retries_min = 1;
@@ -838,6 +840,15 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "tcp_min_snd_mss",
+		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_min_snd_mss,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &tcp_min_snd_mss_min,
+		.extra2		= &tcp_min_snd_mss_max,
+	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "tcp_probe_threshold",
 		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 82c1064ff4aa..848f2c1da8a5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -2456,6 +2456,7 @@ static int __net_init tcp_sk_init(struct net *net)
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn_fallback = 1;
 
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_base_mss = TCP_BASE_MSS;
+	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_min_snd_mss = TCP_MIN_SND_MSS;
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold = TCP_PROBE_THRESHOLD;
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_interval = TCP_PROBE_INTERVAL;
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 123b2d8fde46..d8c6b833f0ce 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1360,8 +1360,7 @@ static inline int __tcp_mtu_to_mss(struct sock *sk, int pmtu)
 	mss_now -= icsk->icsk_ext_hdr_len;
 
 	/* Then reserve room for full set of TCP options and 8 bytes of data */
-	if (mss_now < TCP_MIN_SND_MSS)
-		mss_now = TCP_MIN_SND_MSS;
+	mss_now = max(mss_now, sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_min_snd_mss);
 	return mss_now;
 }