diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/efa/efa_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/efa/efa_verbs.c
index 6d6886c9009f20f0bf23da7c9d1d66af8a79b650..0fea5d63fdbe15dec340fc1d7defa27866d65eea 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/efa/efa_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/efa/efa_verbs.c
@@ -1728,7 +1728,6 @@ int efa_mmap(struct ib_ucontext *ibucontext,
 		ibdev_dbg(&dev->ibdev, "Mapping executable pages is not permitted\n");
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
-	vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_MAYEXEC;
 
 	return __efa_mmap(dev, ucontext, vma, key, length);
 }