diff --git a/include/linux/evm.h b/include/linux/evm.h
index 01fc495a83e27816088954955a3e56e6da470acf..36ec884320d9f5adab2ba5fc258ea0edc2b363ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/evm.h
+++ b/include/linux/evm.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ extern void evm_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry,
 				    const char *xattr_name,
 				    const void *xattr_value,
 				    size_t xattr_value_len);
+extern int evm_inode_copy_up_xattr(const char *name);
 extern int evm_inode_removexattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 				 struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name);
 extern void evm_inode_post_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry,
@@ -117,6 +118,11 @@ static inline void evm_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry,
 	return;
 }
 
+static inline int  evm_inode_copy_up_xattr(const char *name)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int evm_inode_removexattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 					struct dentry *dentry,
 					const char *xattr_name)
diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
index 894570fe39bc530262abff3b0989679da7dfeef4..02adba635b02cbfe083fe9f193bb6890cc023f66 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
@@ -863,6 +863,13 @@ void evm_inode_post_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, int ia_valid)
 		evm_update_evmxattr(dentry, NULL, NULL, 0);
 }
 
+int evm_inode_copy_up_xattr(const char *name)
+{
+	if (strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_EVM) == 0)
+		return 1; /* Discard */
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
 /*
  * evm_inode_init_security - initializes security.evm HMAC value
  */
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index dcb3e7014f9bdd4b6115f0407c5b1d7d3a588e9c..f00ec4d988b897d6f81d112f671396af3665ed71 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -2539,7 +2539,7 @@ int security_inode_copy_up_xattr(const char *name)
 			return rc;
 	}
 
-	return LSM_RET_DEFAULT(inode_copy_up_xattr);
+	return evm_inode_copy_up_xattr(name);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_inode_copy_up_xattr);