diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 6e8b8e3fa4b7..f9958f661789 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ struct flex_groups {
 #define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE		0x304BDFFF /* User visible flags */
 #define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE		0x204BC0FF /* User modifiable flags */
 
+/* Flags we can manipulate with through EXT4_IOC_FSSETXATTR */
 #define EXT4_FL_XFLAG_VISIBLE		(EXT4_SYNC_FL | \
 					 EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL | \
 					 EXT4_APPEND_FL | \
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 834a1c10b2c2..2faeb3cdbbb3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -415,6 +415,10 @@ static inline __u32 ext4_iflags_to_xflags(unsigned long iflags)
 	return xflags;
 }
 
+#define EXT4_SUPPORTED_FS_XFLAGS (FS_XFLAG_SYNC | FS_XFLAG_IMMUTABLE | \
+				  FS_XFLAG_APPEND | FS_XFLAG_NODUMP | \
+				  FS_XFLAG_NOATIME | FS_XFLAG_PROJINHERIT)
+
 /* Transfer xflags flags to internal */
 static inline unsigned long ext4_xflags_to_iflags(__u32 xflags)
 {
@@ -459,12 +463,22 @@ long ext4_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		if (get_user(flags, (int __user *) arg))
 			return -EFAULT;
 
+		if (flags & ~EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		/*
+		 * chattr(1) grabs flags via GETFLAGS, modifies the result and
+		 * passes that to SETFLAGS. So we cannot easily make SETFLAGS
+		 * more restrictive than just silently masking off visible but
+		 * not settable flags as we always did.
+		 */
+		flags &= EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE;
+		if (ext4_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags) != flags)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 		err = mnt_want_write_file(filp);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 
-		flags = ext4_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags);
-
 		inode_lock(inode);
 		err = ext4_ioctl_setflags(inode, flags);
 		inode_unlock(inode);
@@ -871,13 +885,17 @@ resizefs_out:
 		if (!inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
 			return -EACCES;
 
+		if (fa.fsx_xflags & ~EXT4_SUPPORTED_FS_XFLAGS)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+		flags = ext4_xflags_to_iflags(fa.fsx_xflags);
+		if (ext4_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags) != flags)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 		err = mnt_want_write_file(filp);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 
-		flags = ext4_xflags_to_iflags(fa.fsx_xflags);
-		flags = ext4_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags);
-
 		inode_lock(inode);
 		flags = (ei->i_flags & ~EXT4_FL_XFLAG_VISIBLE) |
 			 (flags & EXT4_FL_XFLAG_VISIBLE);