diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c
index b14316603e44f87f14978e8ad28e760018ef328c..7ddc790b1819a913d6a9a621f92e9cd7a46bdcb7 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c
@@ -757,10 +757,6 @@ static void destroy_cq_kernel(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev, struct mlx5_ib_cq *cq)
 	mlx5_db_free(dev->mdev, &cq->db);
 }
 
-enum {
-	CQ_CREATE_FLAGS_SUPPORTED = IB_CQ_FLAGS_TIMESTAMP_COMPLETION
-};
-
 struct ib_cq *mlx5_ib_create_cq(struct ib_device *ibdev,
 				const struct ib_cq_init_attr *attr,
 				struct ib_ucontext *context,
@@ -778,13 +774,10 @@ struct ib_cq *mlx5_ib_create_cq(struct ib_device *ibdev,
 	int eqn;
 	int err;
 
-	if (check_cq_create_flags(attr->flags))
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
 	if (entries < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	if (attr->flags & ~CQ_CREATE_FLAGS_SUPPORTED)
+	if (check_cq_create_flags(attr->flags))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
 
 	entries = roundup_pow_of_two(entries + 1);
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
index 726e31de59d55647393031c638091e137629226d..d475f83c295b83d443e1b1b9235f406ee3071623 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
@@ -739,7 +739,8 @@ static inline u32 check_cq_create_flags(u32 flags)
 	 * It returns non-zero value for unsupported CQ
 	 * create flags, otherwise it returns zero.
 	 */
-	return (flags & ~IB_CQ_FLAGS_IGNORE_OVERRUN);
+	return (flags & ~(IB_CQ_FLAGS_IGNORE_OVERRUN |
+			  IB_CQ_FLAGS_TIMESTAMP_COMPLETION));
 }
 
 static inline int verify_assign_uidx(u8 cqe_version, u32 cmd_uidx,