diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
index bd7f675463f68bd9ab40bf9d4a265fd11003be0e..34d0cc1a4147ffb921119865aaff959122d6aa63 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nldev_policy[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX] = {
 	[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_UVERBS_DRIVER_ID]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[RDMA_NLDEV_NET_NS_FD]			= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[RDMA_NLDEV_SYS_ATTR_NETNS_MODE]	= { .type = NLA_U8 },
+	[RDMA_NLDEV_SYS_ATTR_COPY_ON_FORK]	= { .type = NLA_U8 },
 };
 
 static int put_driver_name_print_type(struct sk_buff *msg, const char *name,
@@ -1849,6 +1850,19 @@ static int nldev_sys_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 		nlmsg_free(msg);
 		return err;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Copy-on-fork is supported.
+	 * See commits:
+	 * 70e806e4e645 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes")
+	 * 4eae4efa2c29 ("hugetlb: do early cow when page pinned on src mm")
+	 * for more details. Don't backport this without them.
+	 *
+	 * Return value ignored on purpose, assume copy-on-fork is not
+	 * supported in case of failure.
+	 */
+	nla_put_u8(msg, RDMA_NLDEV_SYS_ATTR_COPY_ON_FORK, 1);
+
 	nlmsg_end(msg, nlh);
 	return rdma_nl_unicast(sock_net(skb->sk), msg, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid);
 }
diff --git a/include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h b/include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
index 2c8d405ec924fde69166fbb233d104725030303f..75a1ae2311d86345bbcc096a26fc98319b9c327f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
@@ -546,6 +546,9 @@ enum rdma_nldev_attr {
 
 	RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MIN_RANGE,		/* u32 */
 	RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX_RANGE,		/* u32 */
+
+	RDMA_NLDEV_SYS_ATTR_COPY_ON_FORK,	/* u8 */
+
 	/*
 	 * Always the end
 	 */