diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 1f212b47a48a1033d1799c946f0bb0b9dca96fd2..31bd885b79eb0e5ce6bfe9d56823e18c9371fd2c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1098,6 +1098,7 @@ config KEXEC
 config KEXEC_FILE
 	bool "kexec file based system call"
 	select KEXEC_CORE
+	select HAVE_IMA_KEXEC if IMA
 	help
 	  This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is
 	  file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument