diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic
index 1f2f83436..56e9ba6a4 100644
--- a/config-generic
+++ b/config-generic
@@ -3569,6 +3569,7 @@ CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
 CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
+CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y
 CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
 CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y