diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 53cea9bcb14c8a55953b8b6938be537106b6ffea..36be26b2ef7af81407771420e3e146099bf6b468 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -440,6 +440,10 @@ tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
 	SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
 	is seriously misconfigured.
 
+	If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
+	network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
+	unconditionally generation of syncookies.
+
 tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
 	Enable TCP Fast Open feature (draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen) to send data
 	in the opening SYN packet. To use this feature, the client application
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 2a5d5c469d17f720ca6076fe738b541711fe876d..280efe5f19c1c86385bf8e15c146d8ac31135198 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ bool tcp_syn_flood_action(struct sock *sk,
 		NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDROP);
 
 	lopt = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_accept_queue.listen_opt;
-	if (!lopt->synflood_warned) {
+	if (!lopt->synflood_warned && sysctl_tcp_syncookies != 2) {
 		lopt->synflood_warned = 1;
 		pr_info("%s: Possible SYN flooding on port %d. %s.  Check SNMP counters.\n",
 			proto, ntohs(tcp_hdr(skb)->dest), msg);
@@ -1462,7 +1462,8 @@ int tcp_v4_conn_request(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	 * limitations, they conserve resources and peer is
 	 * evidently real one.
 	 */
-	if (inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk) && !isn) {
+	if ((sysctl_tcp_syncookies == 2 ||
+	     inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk)) && !isn) {
 		want_cookie = tcp_syn_flood_action(sk, skb, "TCP");
 		if (!want_cookie)
 			goto drop;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index b792e870686b96e3109f390508018cc52eb06628..38c196ca6011a5390693c374b1b2f8e8c2203ba4 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -963,7 +963,8 @@ static int tcp_v6_conn_request(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (!ipv6_unicast_destination(skb))
 		goto drop;
 
-	if (inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk) && !isn) {
+	if ((sysctl_tcp_syncookies == 2 ||
+	     inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk)) && !isn) {
 		want_cookie = tcp_syn_flood_action(sk, skb, "TCPv6");
 		if (!want_cookie)
 			goto drop;