1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
index 10aa9ef86cec..2390e3d08e48 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ int iio_event_getfd(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
         }
         spin_unlock_irq(&ev_int->wait.lock);
         fd = anon_inode_getfd("iio:event",
-                                &iio_event_chrdev_fileops, ev_int, O_RDONLY);
+                                &iio_event_chrdev_fileops, ev_int, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
         if (fd < 0) {
                 spin_lock_irq(&ev_int->wait.lock);
                 __clear_bit(IIO_BUSY_BIT_POS, &ev_int->flags);