diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index aff20ddd4a9f..5a2512d20bd0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1496,6 +1496,18 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
 
 	mp->m_super = sb;
 
+	/*
+	 * Copy VFS mount flags from the context now that all parameter parsing
+	 * is guaranteed to have been completed by either the old mount API or
+	 * the newer fsopen/fsconfig API.
+	 */
+	if (fc->sb_flags & SB_RDONLY)
+		set_bit(XFS_OPSTATE_READONLY, &mp->m_opstate);
+	if (fc->sb_flags & SB_DIRSYNC)
+		mp->m_features |= XFS_FEAT_DIRSYNC;
+	if (fc->sb_flags & SB_SYNCHRONOUS)
+		mp->m_features |= XFS_FEAT_WSYNC;
+
 	error = xfs_fs_validate_params(mp);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
@@ -1965,6 +1977,11 @@ static const struct fs_context_operations xfs_context_ops = {
 	.free        = xfs_fs_free,
 };
 
+/*
+ * WARNING: do not initialise any parameters in this function that depend on
+ * mount option parsing having already been performed as this can be called from
+ * fsopen() before any parameters have been set.
+ */
 static int xfs_init_fs_context(
 	struct fs_context	*fc)
 {
@@ -1996,16 +2013,6 @@ static int xfs_init_fs_context(
 	mp->m_logbsize = -1;
 	mp->m_allocsize_log = 16; /* 64k */
 
-	/*
-	 * Copy binary VFS mount flags we are interested in.
-	 */
-	if (fc->sb_flags & SB_RDONLY)
-		set_bit(XFS_OPSTATE_READONLY, &mp->m_opstate);
-	if (fc->sb_flags & SB_DIRSYNC)
-		mp->m_features |= XFS_FEAT_DIRSYNC;
-	if (fc->sb_flags & SB_SYNCHRONOUS)
-		mp->m_features |= XFS_FEAT_WSYNC;
-
 	fc->s_fs_info = mp;
 	fc->ops = &xfs_context_ops;