diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index bd37727526eaf..0feb3bd49cb85 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ time out requests if server still responding reasonably fast
 on requests on other threads.  Improve POSIX locking emulation,
 (lock cancel now works, and unlock of merged range works even
 to Windows servers now).  Fix oops on mount to lanman servers
-(win9x, os/2 etc.) when null password.
+(win9x, os/2 etc.) when null password.  Do not send listxattr
+(SMB to query all EAs) if nouser_xattr specified.
 
 Version 1.44
 ------------
diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 7986d0d97ace4..5f0e1bd64feee 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
   user_xattr    Allow getting and setting user xattrs as OS/2 EAs (extended
 		attributes) to the server (default) e.g. via setfattr 
 		and getfattr utilities. 
-  nouser_xattr  Do not allow getfattr/setfattr to get/set xattrs 
+  nouser_xattr  Do not allow getfattr/setfattr to get/set/list xattrs 
   mapchars      Translate six of the seven reserved characters (not backslash)
 			*?<>|:
 		to the remap range (above 0xF000), which also
diff --git a/fs/cifs/xattr.c b/fs/cifs/xattr.c
index 7754d641775eb..067648b7179b5 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/xattr.c
@@ -330,11 +330,15 @@ ssize_t cifs_listxattr(struct dentry * direntry, char * data, size_t buf_size)
 	sb = direntry->d_inode->i_sb;
 	if(sb == NULL)
 		return -EIO;
-	xid = GetXid();
 
 	cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(sb);
 	pTcon = cifs_sb->tcon;
 
+	if(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_NO_XATTR)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	xid = GetXid();
+
 	full_path = build_path_from_dentry(direntry);
 	if(full_path == NULL) {
 		FreeXid(xid);