diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst
index d973d469ffc4..cc8781b96b4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst
@@ -426,6 +426,10 @@ All md devices contain:
      The accepted values when writing to this file are ``ppl`` and ``resync``,
      used to enable and disable PPL.
 
+  uuid
+     This indicates the UUID of the array in the following format:
+     xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
+
 
 As component devices are added to an md array, they appear in the ``md``
 directory as new directories named::
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 5e8f772ab117..5116d29b74e1 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4252,6 +4252,14 @@ out_unlock:
 static struct md_sysfs_entry md_raid_disks =
 __ATTR(raid_disks, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, raid_disks_show, raid_disks_store);
 
+static ssize_t
+uuid_show(struct mddev *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%pU\n", mddev->uuid);
+}
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_uuid =
+__ATTR(uuid, S_IRUGO, uuid_show, NULL);
+
 static ssize_t
 chunk_size_show(struct mddev *mddev, char *page)
 {
@@ -5508,6 +5516,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
 	&md_level.attr,
 	&md_layout.attr,
 	&md_raid_disks.attr,
+	&md_uuid.attr,
 	&md_chunk_size.attr,
 	&md_size.attr,
 	&md_resync_start.attr,