diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 346e3f69c6e0ed38cb4d9048a081a76e2b5ece98..eca58c29eded6cd68d6d9a9205f04301fa33de6b 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_uselib(const char __user * library)
 	if (!S_ISREG(nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
 		goto exit;
 
+	error = -EACCES;
+	if (nd.path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC)
+		goto exit;
+
 	error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC | MAY_OPEN);
 	if (error)
 		goto exit;
@@ -668,6 +672,9 @@ struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
 	if (!S_ISREG(nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
 		goto out_path_put;
 
+	if (nd.path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC)
+		goto out_path_put;
+
 	err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC | MAY_OPEN);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_path_put;
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 6d75430358ac654fb0eb3ed56d1203bf42c3fb19..396cb3e5c364692ff63a95c78b321440e1b9b482 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -252,15 +252,6 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd)
 			return -EACCES;
 	}
 
-	if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
-		/*
-		 * MAY_EXEC on regular files is denied if the fs is mounted
-		 * with the "noexec" flag.
-		 */
-		if (mnt && (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
-			return -EACCES;
-	}
-
 	/* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */
 	if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission) {
 		retval = inode->i_op->permission(inode, mask);
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 3b3c43674be36356a42116d279647d72c2b99a10..d5e421ad0cf66eb082f90f302350980b92bb48d3 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -461,6 +461,16 @@ asmlinkage long sys_faccessat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode)
 	if (res)
 		goto out;
 
+	if ((mode & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
+		/*
+		 * MAY_EXEC on regular files is denied if the fs is mounted
+		 * with the "noexec" flag.
+		 */
+		res = -EACCES;
+		if (nd.path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC)
+			goto out_path_release;
+	}
+
 	res = vfs_permission(&nd, mode | MAY_ACCESS);
 	/* SuS v2 requires we report a read only fs too */
 	if(res || !(mode & S_IWOTH) ||