diff --git a/src/shared/fstab-util.c b/src/shared/fstab-util.c
index 292b97cd692..1ddcd371cfc 100644
--- a/src/shared/fstab-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/fstab-util.c
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ int fstab_filter_options(const char *opts, const char *names,
                                 break;
                 }
         } else {
-                r = strv_split_full(&stor, opts, ",", EXTRACT_DONT_COALESCE_SEPARATORS | EXTRACT_UNESCAPE_SEPARATORS);
+                r = strv_split_full(&stor, opts, ",", EXTRACT_UNESCAPE_SEPARATORS);
                 if (r < 0)
                         return r;
 
diff --git a/src/test/test-fstab-util.c b/src/test/test-fstab-util.c
index 222ffbb2a75..ebbdd05ca62 100644
--- a/src/test/test-fstab-util.c
+++ b/src/test/test-fstab-util.c
@@ -91,9 +91,13 @@ static void test_fstab_filter_options(void) {
         do_fstab_filter_options("opt =0", "x-opt\0opt\0noopt\0x-noopt\0", 0, NULL, NULL, NULL);
         do_fstab_filter_options(" opt ", "opt\0x-opt\0", 0, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 
-        /* check function will NULL args */
+        /* check function with NULL args */
         do_fstab_filter_options(NULL, "opt\0", 0, NULL, NULL, "");
         do_fstab_filter_options("", "opt\0", 0, NULL, NULL, "");
+
+        /* unnecessary comma separators */
+        do_fstab_filter_options("opt=x,,,,", "opt\0", 1, "opt", "x", "");
+        do_fstab_filter_options(",,,opt=x,,,,", "opt\0", 1, "opt", "x", "");
 }
 
 static void test_fstab_find_pri(void) {