diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9aa8766ee25..1db6757b98e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ Library
   didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD).  The error is
   now silenced.
 
-- Issue #3890: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
+- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
+  Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
+  reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
 
 - Issue #6716/2: Backslash-replace error output in compilall.
 
diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index 45c44f888fd..913115824d9 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
    directly.
 
    XXX should partial writes be enabled, SSL_MODE_ENABLE_PARTIAL_WRITE?
-
-   XXX what about SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY?
 */
 
 #include "Python.h"
@@ -371,6 +369,7 @@ newPySSLObject(PySocketSockObject *Sock, char *key_file, char *cert_file,
 	self->ssl = SSL_new(self->ctx); /* New ssl struct */
 	PySSL_END_ALLOW_THREADS
 	SSL_set_fd(self->ssl, Sock->sock_fd);	/* Set the socket for SSL */
+	SSL_set_mode(self->ssl, SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY);
 
 	/* If the socket is in non-blocking mode or timeout mode, set the BIO
 	 * to non-blocking mode (blocking is the default)