diff --git a/tests/spiders.py b/tests/spiders.py
index 5ea8a4a21..7952e3d47 100644
--- a/tests/spiders.py
+++ b/tests/spiders.py
@@ -419,6 +419,17 @@ class CrawlSpiderWithErrback(CrawlSpiderWithParseMethod):
         self.logger.info('[errback] status %i', failure.value.response.status)
 
 
+class CrawlSpiderWithProcessRequestCallbackKeywordArguments(CrawlSpiderWithParseMethod):
+    name = 'crawl_spider_with_process_request_cb_kwargs'
+    rules = (
+        Rule(LinkExtractor(), callback='parse', follow=True, process_request="process_request"),
+    )
+
+    def process_request(self, request, response):
+        request.cb_kwargs["foo"] = "process_request"
+        return request
+
+
 class BytesReceivedCallbackSpider(MetaSpider):
 
     full_response_length = 2**18
diff --git a/tests/test_crawl.py b/tests/test_crawl.py
index 5383ec652..5ec96e4a7 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawl.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawl.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ from tests.spiders import (
     CrawlSpiderWithAsyncGeneratorCallback,
     CrawlSpiderWithErrback,
     CrawlSpiderWithParseMethod,
+    CrawlSpiderWithProcessRequestCallbackKeywordArguments,
     DelaySpider,
     DuplicateStartRequestsSpider,
     FollowAllSpider,
@@ -426,6 +427,16 @@ class CrawlSpiderTestCase(TestCase):
         self.assertIn("[errback] status 500", str(log))
         self.assertIn("[errback] status 501", str(log))
 
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def test_crawlspider_process_request_cb_kwargs(self):
+        crawler = get_crawler(CrawlSpiderWithProcessRequestCallbackKeywordArguments)
+        with LogCapture() as log:
+            yield crawler.crawl(mockserver=self.mockserver)
+
+        self.assertIn("[parse] status 200 (foo: process_request)", str(log))
+        self.assertIn("[parse] status 201 (foo: process_request)", str(log))
+        self.assertIn("[parse] status 202 (foo: bar)", str(log))
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_async_def_parse(self):
         crawler = get_crawler(AsyncDefSpider)