diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 1e06e443a565..ca5444733acd 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -1091,6 +1091,12 @@ inline int build_open_flags(const struct open_how *how, struct open_flags *op)
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_BENEATH;
 	if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_IN_ROOT)
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_IN_ROOT;
+	if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_CACHED) {
+		/* Don't bother even trying for create/truncate/tmpfile open */
+		if (flags & (O_TRUNC | O_CREAT | O_TMPFILE))
+			return -EAGAIN;
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_CACHED;
+	}
 
 	op->lookup_flags = lookup_flags;
 	return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/fcntl.h b/include/linux/fcntl.h
index 921e750843e6..766fcd973beb 100644
--- a/include/linux/fcntl.h
+++ b/include/linux/fcntl.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 /* List of all valid flags for the how->resolve argument: */
 #define VALID_RESOLVE_FLAGS \
 	(RESOLVE_NO_XDEV | RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS | RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS | \
-	 RESOLVE_BENEATH | RESOLVE_IN_ROOT)
+	 RESOLVE_BENEATH | RESOLVE_IN_ROOT | RESOLVE_CACHED)
 
 /* List of all open_how "versions". */
 #define OPEN_HOW_SIZE_VER0	24 /* sizeof first published struct */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h b/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h
index 58b1eb711360..a5feb7604948 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h
@@ -35,5 +35,9 @@ struct open_how {
 #define RESOLVE_IN_ROOT		0x10 /* Make all jumps to "/" and ".."
 					be scoped inside the dirfd
 					(similar to chroot(2)). */
+#define RESOLVE_CACHED		0x20 /* Only complete if resolution can be
+					completed through cached lookup. May
+					return -EAGAIN if that's not
+					possible. */
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_OPENAT2_H */