diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 3f9c64bea15..f6e00c0e114 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user *name, void __user *value, size_t size)
 	if (size) {
 		if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
 			size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
-		kvalue = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!kvalue)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
@@ -154,11 +154,15 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user *name, void __user *value, size_t size)
 	error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	if (d->d_inode->i_op && d->d_inode->i_op->getxattr)
 		error = d->d_inode->i_op->getxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size);
-	else if (!strncmp(kname, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
-			  sizeof XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX - 1)) {
+
+	if (!strncmp(kname, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
+		     sizeof XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX - 1)) {
 		const char *suffix = kname + sizeof XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX - 1;
-		error = security_inode_getsecurity(d->d_inode, suffix, kvalue,
-						   size);
+		int rv = security_inode_getsecurity(d->d_inode, suffix, kvalue,
+						    size, error);
+		/* Security module active: overwrite error value */
+		if (rv != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+			error = rv;
 	}
 	if (error > 0) {
 		if (size && copy_to_user(value, kvalue, error))
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index dac956ed98f..607ee209ea3 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ struct swap_info_struct;
  *	NULL to request the size of the buffer required.  @size indicates
  *	the size of @buffer in bytes.  Note that @name is the remainder
  *	of the attribute name after the security. prefix has been removed.
+ *	@err is the return value from the preceding fs getxattr call,
+ *	and can be used by the security module to determine whether it
+ *	should try and canonicalize the attribute value.
  *	Return number of bytes used/required on success.
  * @inode_setsecurity:
  *	Set the security label associated with @name for @inode from the
@@ -1091,7 +1094,7 @@ struct security_operations {
 	int (*inode_getxattr) (struct dentry *dentry, char *name);
 	int (*inode_listxattr) (struct dentry *dentry);
 	int (*inode_removexattr) (struct dentry *dentry, char *name);
-  	int (*inode_getsecurity)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size);
+  	int (*inode_getsecurity)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err);
   	int (*inode_setsecurity)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags);
   	int (*inode_listsecurity)(struct inode *inode, char *buffer, size_t buffer_size);
 
@@ -1580,11 +1583,11 @@ static inline int security_inode_removexattr (struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
 	return security_ops->inode_removexattr (dentry, name);
 }
 
-static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
+static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err)
 {
 	if (unlikely (IS_PRIVATE (inode)))
 		return 0;
-	return security_ops->inode_getsecurity(inode, name, buffer, size);
+	return security_ops->inode_getsecurity(inode, name, buffer, size, err);
 }
 
 static inline int security_inode_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
@@ -2222,7 +2225,7 @@ static inline int security_inode_removexattr (struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
 	return cap_inode_removexattr(dentry, name);
 }
 
-static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
+static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err)
 {
 	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }
diff --git a/security/dummy.c b/security/dummy.c
index 3d34f3de7e8..2a0337a52d3 100644
--- a/security/dummy.c
+++ b/security/dummy.c
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static int dummy_inode_removexattr (struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int dummy_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
+static int dummy_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err)
 {
 	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 8cd33b2cd86..d9ec85292e1 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -2208,9 +2208,6 @@ static int selinux_inode_getxattr (struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
 	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	struct superblock_security_struct *sbsec = inode->i_sb->s_security;
 
-	if (sbsec->behavior == SECURITY_FS_USE_MNTPOINT)
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	return dentry_has_perm(current, NULL, dentry, FILE__GETATTR);
 }
 
@@ -2241,33 +2238,54 @@ static int selinux_inode_removexattr (struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
 	return -EACCES;
 }
 
-static int selinux_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
+/*
+ * Copy the in-core inode security context value to the user.  If the
+ * getxattr() prior to this succeeded, check to see if we need to
+ * canonicalize the value to be finally returned to the user.
+ *
+ * Permission check is handled by selinux_inode_getxattr hook.
+ */
+static int selinux_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err)
 {
 	struct inode_security_struct *isec = inode->i_security;
 	char *context;
 	unsigned len;
 	int rc;
 
-	/* Permission check handled by selinux_inode_getxattr hook.*/
-
-	if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX)) {
+		rc = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	rc = security_sid_to_context(isec->sid, &context, &len);
 	if (rc)
-		return rc;
+		goto out;
 
+	/* Probe for required buffer size */
 	if (!buffer || !size) {
-		kfree(context);
-		return len;
+		rc = len;
+		goto out_free;
 	}
+
 	if (size < len) {
-		kfree(context);
-		return -ERANGE;
+		rc = -ERANGE;
+		goto out_free;
+	}
+
+	if (err > 0) {
+		if ((len == err) && !(memcmp(context, buffer, len))) {
+			/* Don't need to canonicalize value */
+			rc = err;
+			goto out_free;
+		}
+		memset(buffer, 0, size);
 	}
 	memcpy(buffer, context, len);
+	rc = len;
+out_free:
 	kfree(context);
-	return len;
+out:
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static int selinux_inode_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name,