diff --git a/drivers/tty/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
index 0840d27381ea..e0a04bfc873e 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
@@ -441,4 +441,28 @@ config VCC
 	depends on SUN_LDOMS
 	help
 	  Support for Sun logical domain consoles.
+
+config LDISC_AUTOLOAD
+	bool "Automatically load TTY Line Disciplines"
+	default y
+	help
+	  Historically the kernel has always automatically loaded any
+	  line discipline that is in a kernel module when a user asks
+	  for it to be loaded with the TIOCSETD ioctl, or through other
+	  means.  This is not always the best thing to do on systems
+	  where you know you will not be using some of the more
+	  "ancient" line disciplines, so prevent the kernel from doing
+	  this unless the request is coming from a process with the
+	  CAP_SYS_MODULE permissions.
+
+	  Say 'Y' here if you trust your userspace users to do the right
+	  thing, or if you have only provided the line disciplines that
+	  you know you will be using, or if you wish to continue to use
+	  the traditional method of on-demand loading of these modules
+	  by any user.
+
+	  This functionality can be changed at runtime with the
+	  dev.tty.ldisc_autoload sysctl, this configuration option will
+	  only set the default value of this functionality.
+
 endif # TTY
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 21ffcce16927..5fa250157025 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -513,6 +513,8 @@ static const struct file_operations hung_up_tty_fops = {
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(redirect_lock);
 static struct file *redirect;
 
+extern void tty_sysctl_init(void);
+
 /**
  *	tty_wakeup	-	request more data
  *	@tty: terminal
@@ -3483,6 +3485,7 @@ void console_sysfs_notify(void)
  */
 int __init tty_init(void)
 {
+	tty_sysctl_init();
 	cdev_init(&tty_cdev, &tty_fops);
 	if (cdev_add(&tty_cdev, MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 0), 1) ||
 	    register_chrdev_region(MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 0), 1, "/dev/tty") < 0)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
index 45eda69b150c..e38f104db174 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ static void put_ldops(struct tty_ldisc_ops *ldops)
  *		takes tty_ldiscs_lock to guard against ldisc races
  */
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_LDISC_AUTOLOAD)
+	#define INITIAL_AUTOLOAD_STATE	1
+#else
+	#define INITIAL_AUTOLOAD_STATE	0
+#endif
+static int tty_ldisc_autoload = INITIAL_AUTOLOAD_STATE;
+
 static struct tty_ldisc *tty_ldisc_get(struct tty_struct *tty, int disc)
 {
 	struct tty_ldisc *ld;
@@ -170,6 +177,8 @@ static struct tty_ldisc *tty_ldisc_get(struct tty_struct *tty, int disc)
 	 */
 	ldops = get_ldops(disc);
 	if (IS_ERR(ldops)) {
+		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE) && !tty_ldisc_autoload)
+			return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
 		request_module("tty-ldisc-%d", disc);
 		ldops = get_ldops(disc);
 		if (IS_ERR(ldops))
@@ -845,3 +854,41 @@ void tty_ldisc_deinit(struct tty_struct *tty)
 		tty_ldisc_put(tty->ldisc);
 	tty->ldisc = NULL;
 }
+
+static int zero;
+static int one = 1;
+static struct ctl_table tty_table[] = {
+	{
+		.procname	= "ldisc_autoload",
+		.data		= &tty_ldisc_autoload,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(tty_ldisc_autoload),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.extra1		= &zero,
+		.extra2		= &one,
+	},
+	{ }
+};
+
+static struct ctl_table tty_dir_table[] = {
+	{
+		.procname	= "tty",
+		.mode		= 0555,
+		.child		= tty_table,
+	},
+	{ }
+};
+
+static struct ctl_table tty_root_table[] = {
+	{
+		.procname	= "dev",
+		.mode		= 0555,
+		.child		= tty_dir_table,
+	},
+	{ }
+};
+
+void tty_sysctl_init(void)
+{
+	register_sysctl_table(tty_root_table);
+}