diff --git a/src/basic/memfd-util.c b/src/basic/memfd-util.c
index 8e6946642b7..c4e36b0ad45 100644
--- a/src/basic/memfd-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/memfd-util.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ int memfd_get_sealed(int fd) {
                 return -errno;
 
         /* We ignore F_SEAL_EXEC here to support older kernels. */
-        return FLAGS_SET(r, F_SEAL_SHRINK | F_SEAL_GROW | F_SEAL_WRITE | F_SEAL_SEAL);
+        return FLAGS_SET(r, F_SEAL_SHRINK | F_SEAL_GROW | F_SEAL_WRITE);
 }
 
 int memfd_get_size(int fd, uint64_t *sz) {