diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h
index dcd5395b400d8212451b8726bb4acf5708916650..63c3bb98558f6b3e2d07cd9040621273966c1eec 100644
--- a/include/linux/audit.h
+++ b/include/linux/audit.h
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@
 #define AUDIT_WATCH	105
 #define AUDIT_PERM	106
 #define AUDIT_DIR	107
+#define AUDIT_FILETYPE	108
 
 #define AUDIT_ARG0      200
 #define AUDIT_ARG1      (AUDIT_ARG0+1)
diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index 7c3450d063fe9556c6b1fd299ee442a3d48938c3..9435d9392df58231216f49430a44f49aa5a53966 100644
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -478,6 +478,10 @@ static struct audit_entry *audit_rule_to_entry(struct audit_rule *rule)
 			if (f->val & ~15)
 				goto exit_free;
 			break;
+		case AUDIT_FILETYPE:
+			if ((f->val & ~S_IFMT) > S_IFMT)
+				goto exit_free;
+			break;
 		case AUDIT_INODE:
 			err = audit_to_inode(&entry->rule, f);
 			if (err)
@@ -649,6 +653,10 @@ static struct audit_entry *audit_data_to_entry(struct audit_rule_data *data,
 			if (f->val & ~15)
 				goto exit_free;
 			break;
+		case AUDIT_FILETYPE:
+			if ((f->val & ~S_IFMT) > S_IFMT)
+				goto exit_free;
+			break;
 		default:
 			goto exit_free;
 		}
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 091409996577dac43506aadef870ead32e88397c..c10e7aae04d795714fb8cf4ee9326eff4bf6c472 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -280,6 +280,19 @@ static int audit_match_perm(struct audit_context *ctx, int mask)
 	}
 }
 
+static int audit_match_filetype(struct audit_context *ctx, int which)
+{
+	unsigned index = which & ~S_IFMT;
+	mode_t mode = which & S_IFMT;
+	if (index >= ctx->name_count)
+		return 0;
+	if (ctx->names[index].ino == -1)
+		return 0;
+	if ((ctx->names[index].mode ^ mode) & S_IFMT)
+		return 0;
+	return 1;
+}
+
 /*
  * We keep a linked list of fixed-sized (31 pointer) arrays of audit_chunk *;
  * ->first_trees points to its beginning, ->trees - to the current end of data.
@@ -589,6 +602,9 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
 		case AUDIT_PERM:
 			result = audit_match_perm(ctx, f->val);
 			break;
+		case AUDIT_FILETYPE:
+			result = audit_match_filetype(ctx, f->val);
+			break;
 		}
 
 		if (!result)