diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c
index c6ef5e33cb34..75d44efe346c 100644
--- a/fs/timerfd.c
+++ b/fs/timerfd.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags)
 	int ufd;
 	struct timerfd_ctx *ctx;
 
-	if (flags & ~TFD_CLOEXEC)
+	if (flags & ~(TFD_CLOEXEC | TFD_NONBLOCK))
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (clockid != CLOCK_MONOTONIC &&
 	    clockid != CLOCK_REALTIME)
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags)
 	hrtimer_init(&ctx->tmr, clockid, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
 
 	ufd = anon_inode_getfd("[timerfd]", &timerfd_fops, ctx,
-			       flags & O_CLOEXEC);
+			       flags & (O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK));
 	if (ufd < 0)
 		kfree(ctx);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/timerfd.h b/include/linux/timerfd.h
index 96ed97dff00f..86cb0501d3e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/timerfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/timerfd.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_TIMERFD_H
 #define _LINUX_TIMERFD_H
 
-/* For O_CLOEXEC */
+/* For O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK */
 #include <linux/fcntl.h>
 
 /* Flags for timerfd_settime.  */
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 /* Flags for timerfd_create.  */
 #define TFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC
+#define TFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
 
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_TIMERFD_H */