diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 032b837fcd11912e54a01920ddf40b9506f1c8f9..b966b7230f4752b7ce759b64850b96ca9c641cbd 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -195,6 +195,14 @@ static int prepare_for_access_response(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 	re->fd = fd;
 
 	mutex_lock(&group->fanotify_data.access_mutex);
+
+	if (group->fanotify_data.bypass_perm) {
+		mutex_unlock(&group->fanotify_data.access_mutex);
+		kmem_cache_free(fanotify_response_event_cache, re);
+		event->response = FAN_ALLOW;
+		return 0;
+	}
+		
 	list_add_tail(&re->list, &group->fanotify_data.access_list);
 	mutex_unlock(&group->fanotify_data.access_mutex);
 
@@ -364,9 +372,28 @@ static ssize_t fanotify_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t
 static int fanotify_release(struct inode *ignored, struct file *file)
 {
 	struct fsnotify_group *group = file->private_data;
+	struct fanotify_response_event *re, *lre;
 
 	pr_debug("%s: file=%p group=%p\n", __func__, file, group);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS
+	mutex_lock(&group->fanotify_data.access_mutex);
+
+	group->fanotify_data.bypass_perm = true;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(re, lre, &group->fanotify_data.access_list, list) {
+		pr_debug("%s: found group=%p re=%p event=%p\n", __func__, group,
+			 re, re->event);
+
+		list_del_init(&re->list);
+		re->event->response = FAN_ALLOW;
+
+		kmem_cache_free(fanotify_response_event_cache, re);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&group->fanotify_data.access_mutex);
+
+	wake_up(&group->fanotify_data.access_waitq);
+#endif
 	/* matches the fanotify_init->fsnotify_alloc_group */
 	fsnotify_put_group(group);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fanotify.h b/include/linux/fanotify.h
index f0949a57ca9d72cc7cb47df5717ab6fef250427b..985435622ecd6bf666ee1b43bb1beef6e9f42537 100644
--- a/include/linux/fanotify.h
+++ b/include/linux/fanotify.h
@@ -95,11 +95,4 @@ struct fanotify_response {
 				(long)(meta)->event_len >= (long)FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN && \
 				(long)(meta)->event_len <= (long)(len))
 
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
-
-struct fanotify_wait {
-	struct fsnotify_event *event;
-	__s32 fd;
-};
-#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* _LINUX_FANOTIFY_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index ed36fb57c426b13ce2b9ec3df0574779607949f5..e40190d1687813d5c86e2a1b9e414e48fcf22595 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ struct fsnotify_group {
 			struct mutex access_mutex;
 			struct list_head access_list;
 			wait_queue_head_t access_waitq;
+			bool bypass_perm; /* protected by access_mutex */
 #endif /* CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS */
 			int f_flags;
 		} fanotify_data;