diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index c31f362fa098be64e5370ea61ea3f7cd17636ae2..889f9c71049b8638c29fda74dea0db825bbdab7e 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -534,6 +534,8 @@ cifs_show_options(struct seq_file *s, struct dentry *root)
 		seq_puts(s, ",signloosely");
 	if (tcon->nocase)
 		seq_puts(s, ",nocase");
+	if (tcon->nodelete)
+		seq_puts(s, ",nodelete");
 	if (tcon->local_lease)
 		seq_puts(s, ",locallease");
 	if (tcon->retry)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
index 39b708d9d86d069aa873d6a18fffbfba4fb0f028..4d261fd78fcba6d7f1e66772caed2be8aef5ee6a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ struct smb_vol {
 	bool override_gid:1;
 	bool dynperm:1;
 	bool noperm:1;
+	bool nodelete:1;
 	bool mode_ace:1;
 	bool no_psx_acl:1; /* set if posix acl support should be disabled */
 	bool cifs_acl:1;
@@ -1136,6 +1137,7 @@ struct cifs_tcon {
 	bool retry:1;
 	bool nocase:1;
 	bool nohandlecache:1; /* if strange server resource prob can turn off */
+	bool nodelete:1;
 	bool seal:1;      /* transport encryption for this mounted share */
 	bool unix_ext:1;  /* if false disable Linux extensions to CIFS protocol
 				for this mount even if server would support */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 329babc6b18a57c7a365acf5dcfc88bfd298f8d0..57d1cc6bf86fcf0483398fa8f59d19737a21ecf6 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ enum {
 	Opt_forceuid, Opt_noforceuid,
 	Opt_forcegid, Opt_noforcegid,
 	Opt_noblocksend, Opt_noautotune, Opt_nolease,
-	Opt_hard, Opt_soft, Opt_perm, Opt_noperm,
+	Opt_hard, Opt_soft, Opt_perm, Opt_noperm, Opt_nodelete,
 	Opt_mapposix, Opt_nomapposix,
 	Opt_mapchars, Opt_nomapchars, Opt_sfu,
 	Opt_nosfu, Opt_nodfs, Opt_posixpaths,
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ static const match_table_t cifs_mount_option_tokens = {
 	{ Opt_soft, "soft" },
 	{ Opt_perm, "perm" },
 	{ Opt_noperm, "noperm" },
+	{ Opt_nodelete, "nodelete" },
 	{ Opt_mapchars, "mapchars" }, /* SFU style */
 	{ Opt_nomapchars, "nomapchars" },
 	{ Opt_mapposix, "mapposix" }, /* SFM style */
@@ -1760,6 +1761,9 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
 		case Opt_noperm:
 			vol->noperm = 1;
 			break;
+		case Opt_nodelete:
+			vol->nodelete = 1;
+			break;
 		case Opt_mapchars:
 			vol->sfu_remap = true;
 			vol->remap = false; /* disable SFM mapping */
@@ -3362,6 +3366,8 @@ static int match_tcon(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, struct smb_vol *volume_info)
 		return 0;
 	if (tcon->no_lease != volume_info->no_lease)
 		return 0;
+	if (tcon->nodelete != volume_info->nodelete)
+		return 0;
 	return 1;
 }
 
@@ -3597,6 +3603,7 @@ cifs_get_tcon(struct cifs_ses *ses, struct smb_vol *volume_info)
 	tcon->retry = volume_info->retry;
 	tcon->nocase = volume_info->nocase;
 	tcon->nohandlecache = volume_info->nohandlecache;
+	tcon->nodelete = volume_info->nodelete;
 	tcon->local_lease = volume_info->local_lease;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tcon->pending_opens);
 
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index 5d2965a2373054a4c288a9b6b688a05865bd3e4b..873b1effd4127eef4a969f657b6e149740c2cf0a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -1418,6 +1418,11 @@ int cifs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	xid = get_xid();
 
+	if (tcon->nodelete) {
+		rc = -EACCES;
+		goto unlink_out;
+	}
+
 	/* Unlink can be called from rename so we can not take the
 	 * sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex here */
 	full_path = build_path_from_dentry(dentry);
@@ -1746,6 +1751,12 @@ int cifs_rmdir(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry)
 		goto rmdir_exit;
 	}
 
+	if (tcon->nodelete) {
+		rc = -EACCES;
+		cifs_put_tlink(tlink);
+		goto rmdir_exit;
+	}
+
 	rc = server->ops->rmdir(xid, tcon, full_path, cifs_sb);
 	cifs_put_tlink(tlink);