diff --git a/cc/builder.go b/cc/builder.go
index 0bea9da..39f7dc3 100644
--- a/cc/builder.go
+++ b/cc/builder.go
@@ -672,11 +672,16 @@
 			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", moduleFlags)
+			sharedCFlags := shareFlags("cFlags", reducedCFlags)
 			srcRelPath := srcFile.Rel()
 
 			// Add the .tidy rule
diff --git a/cc/config/tidy.go b/cc/config/tidy.go
index 23bda66..af49e88 100644
--- a/cc/config/tidy.go
+++ b/cc/config/tidy.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 import (
 	"android/soong/android"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 )
 
@@ -237,3 +238,11 @@
 	}
 	return flags
 }
+
+var (
+	removedCFlags = regexp.MustCompile(" -fsanitize=[^ ]*memtag-[^ ]* ")
+)
+
+func TidyReduceCFlags(flags string) string {
+	return removedCFlags.ReplaceAllString(flags, " ")
+}