diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 30d0c6726..b25956a5e 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-10-23  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* fhandler.cc (fhandler_base::fstat): Drop FH_FULL case to align
+	/dev/full permissions to Linux.
+
 2013-10-22  Christopher Faylor  <me.cygwin2013@cgf.cx>
 
 	* fhandler.h (fhandler_base::cleanup): Mark as extern rather than
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
index cae50e53d..2c41f31ae 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
@@ -1250,9 +1250,6 @@ fhandler_base::fstat (struct stat *buf)
     case FH_PIPER:
       buf->st_mode = S_IFIFO | S_IRUSR;
       break;
-    case FH_FULL:
-      buf->st_mode = S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH;
-      break;
     default:
       buf->st_mode = S_IFCHR | STD_RBITS | STD_WBITS | S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH;
       break;