diff --git a/cc/builder.go b/cc/builder.go
index 3f582fa85..69cf75bdd 100644
--- a/cc/builder.go
+++ b/cc/builder.go
@@ -681,16 +681,11 @@ func transformSourceToObj(ctx ModuleContext, subdir string, srcFiles, noTidySrcs
 			tidyCmd := "${config.ClangBin}/clang-tidy"
 
 			rule := clangTidy
-			reducedCFlags := moduleFlags
 			if ctx.Config().UseRBE() && ctx.Config().IsEnvTrue("RBE_CLANG_TIDY") {
 				rule = clangTidyRE
-				// b/248371171, work around RBE input processor problem
-				// some cflags rejected by input processor, but usually
-				// do not affect included files or clang-tidy
-				reducedCFlags = config.TidyReduceCFlags(reducedCFlags)
 			}
 
-			sharedCFlags := shareFlags("cFlags", reducedCFlags)
+			sharedCFlags := shareFlags("cFlags", moduleFlags)
 			srcRelPath := srcFile.Rel()
 
 			// Add the .tidy rule
diff --git a/cc/config/tidy.go b/cc/config/tidy.go
index efa45495b..b40557a29 100644
--- a/cc/config/tidy.go
+++ b/cc/config/tidy.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ package config
 
 import (
 	"android/soong/android"
-	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 )
 
@@ -281,11 +280,3 @@ func TidyFlagsForSrcFile(srcFile android.Path, flags string) string {
 	}
 	return flags
 }
-
-var (
-	removedCFlags = regexp.MustCompile(" -fsanitize=[^ ]*memtag-[^ ]* ")
-)
-
-func TidyReduceCFlags(flags string) string {
-	return removedCFlags.ReplaceAllString(flags, " ")
-}