diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 2042261408b9..ca0476e0a15b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -829,6 +829,11 @@ ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
 
 	Default: Empty
 
+reserved_port_bind - BOOLEAN
+	If set, allows explicit bind requests to applications requesting
+	any port within the range of ip_local_reserved_ports.
+	Default: 1
+
 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
 	If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
 	which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index 4f3ef345f4c2..e5a1d35b9905 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ static inline int inet_is_local_reserved_port(struct net *net, int port)
 }
 #endif
 
+extern int sysctl_reserved_port_bind;
+
 /* From inetpeer.c */
 extern int inet_peer_threshold;
 extern int inet_peer_minttl;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 671eb0092915..a243ef1d7aa0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ static inline int current_has_network(void)
 }
 #endif
 
+int sysctl_reserved_port_bind __read_mostly = 1;
+
 /* The inetsw table contains everything that inet_create needs to
  * build a new socket.
  */
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index a4cfa14c73ee..fd1946ca8aec 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -179,6 +179,13 @@ have_snum:
 		head = &hashinfo->bhash[inet_bhashfn(net, snum,
 				hashinfo->bhash_size)];
 		spin_lock(&head->lock);
+
+		if (inet_is_local_reserved_port(net, snum) &&
+		    !sysctl_reserved_port_bind) {
+			ret = 1;
+			goto fail_unlock;
+		}
+
 		inet_bind_bucket_for_each(tb, &head->chain)
 			if (net_eq(ib_net(tb), net) && tb->port == snum)
 				goto tb_found;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index b1784c897e6c..24029ecf17ac 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -902,6 +902,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_do_large_bitmap,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "reserved_port_bind",
+		.data		= &sysctl_reserved_port_bind,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec
+	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "ip_no_pmtu_disc",
 		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_ip_no_pmtu_disc,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
index 510fcd68aaef..424e036f9c4f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
@@ -257,6 +257,11 @@ int udp_lib_get_port(struct sock *sk, unsigned short snum,
 	} else {
 		hslot = udp_hashslot(udptable, net, snum);
 		spin_lock_bh(&hslot->lock);
+
+		if (inet_is_local_reserved_port(net, snum) &&
+		    !sysctl_reserved_port_bind)
+			goto fail_unlock;
+
 		if (hslot->count > 10) {
 			int exist;
 			unsigned int slot2 = udp_sk(sk)->udp_portaddr_hash ^ snum;