diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index eeeae0475da9..0caa151cae4e 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/tracefs.h>
 #include <linux/fsnotify.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 #include <linux/parser.h>
 #include <linux/magic.h>
@@ -390,6 +391,9 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct inode *inode;
 
+	if (security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_TRACEFS))
+		return NULL;
+
 	if (!(mode & S_IFMT))
 		mode |= S_IFREG;
 	BUG_ON(!S_ISREG(mode));