diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig b/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig
index 8517d6ea91a6..ee270e065ba9 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig
@@ -35,14 +35,13 @@ config INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS
 	  libibverbs, libibcm and a hardware driver library from
 	  rdma-core <https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core>.
 
-config INFINIBAND_EXP_USER_ACCESS
-	bool "Enable the full uverbs ioctl interface (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+config INFINIBAND_EXP_LEGACY_VERBS_NEW_UAPI
+	bool "Allow experimental legacy verbs in new ioctl uAPI  (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS
 	---help---
-	  IOCTL based ABI support for Infiniband. This allows userspace
-	  to invoke the experimental IOCTL based ABI.
-	  These commands are parsed via per-device parsing tree and
-	  enables per-device features.
+	  IOCTL based uAPI support for Infiniband is enabled by default for
+	  new verbs only. This allows userspace to invoke the IOCTL based uAPI
+	  for current legacy verbs too.
 
 config INFINIBAND_USER_MEM
 	bool
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
index fbba831f879e..4445d8ee9314 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
@@ -933,10 +933,8 @@ static const struct file_operations uverbs_fops = {
 	.open	 = ib_uverbs_open,
 	.release = ib_uverbs_close,
 	.llseek	 = no_llseek,
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_EXP_USER_ACCESS)
 	.unlocked_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
 	.compat_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
-#endif
 };
 
 static const struct file_operations uverbs_mmap_fops = {
@@ -946,10 +944,8 @@ static const struct file_operations uverbs_mmap_fops = {
 	.open	 = ib_uverbs_open,
 	.release = ib_uverbs_close,
 	.llseek	 = no_llseek,
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_EXP_USER_ACCESS)
 	.unlocked_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
 	.compat_ioctl = ib_uverbs_ioctl,
-#endif
 };
 
 static struct ib_client uverbs_client = {
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_cq.c
index b061b4e15d8b..b0dbae9dd0d7 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_cq.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_cq.c
@@ -202,7 +202,9 @@ static DECLARE_UVERBS_NAMED_METHOD(UVERBS_METHOD_CQ_DESTROY,
 DECLARE_UVERBS_NAMED_OBJECT(UVERBS_OBJECT_CQ,
 			    &UVERBS_TYPE_ALLOC_IDR_SZ(sizeof(struct ib_ucq_object), 0,
 						      uverbs_free_cq),
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_EXP_LEGACY_VERBS_NEW_UAPI)
 			    &UVERBS_METHOD(UVERBS_METHOD_CQ_CREATE),
 			    &UVERBS_METHOD(UVERBS_METHOD_CQ_DESTROY)
+#endif
 			   );