diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 1e766e86f33402a912dfd851ac66a8ebe4446c23..9947a0ac7bd5958a3445908ca495d389acd0ae58 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2455,7 +2455,6 @@ static noinline long btrfs_ioctl_clone(struct file *file, unsigned long srcfd,
 			if (endoff > inode->i_size)
 				btrfs_i_size_write(inode, endoff);
 
-			BTRFS_I(inode)->flags = BTRFS_I(src)->flags;
 			ret = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
 			BUG_ON(ret);
 			btrfs_end_transaction(trans, root);