diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d46c20b72..eb2dab5ed 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Targets available via Rustup that are supported.
-TARGETS ?= "aarch64-apple-ios" "aarch64-linux-android" "x86_64-apple-darwin" "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc" "x86_64-unknown-freebsd" "x86_64-unknown-illumos" "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "x86_64-unknown-netbsd"
+TARGETS ?= aarch64-apple-ios aarch64-linux-android x86_64-apple-darwin x86_64-pc-windows-msvc x86_64-unknown-freebsd x86_64-unknown-illumos x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu x86_64-unknown-netbsd
 
 test:
 	cargo test --all-features
diff --git a/src/sys/unix/selector/epoll.rs b/src/sys/unix/selector/epoll.rs
index 477642a12..074d3a8ef 100644
--- a/src/sys/unix/selector/epoll.rs
+++ b/src/sys/unix/selector/epoll.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,40 @@ pub struct Selector {
 
 impl Selector {
     pub fn new() -> io::Result<Selector> {
-        let ep = new_epoll_fd()?;
+        #[cfg(not(target_os = "android"))]
+        let res = syscall!(epoll_create1(libc::O_CLOEXEC));
+
+        // On Android < API level 16 `epoll_create1` is not defined, so use a
+        // raw system call.
+        // According to libuv, `EPOLL_CLOEXEC` is not defined on Android API <
+        // 21. But `EPOLL_CLOEXEC` is an alias for `O_CLOEXEC` on that platform,
+        // so we use it instead.
+        #[cfg(target_os = "android")]
+        let res = syscall!(syscall(libc::SYS_epoll_create1, libc::EPOLL_CLOEXEC));
+
+        let ep = match res {
+            Ok(ep) => ep as RawFd,
+            Err(err) => {
+                // When `epoll_create1` is not available fall back to use
+                // `epoll_create` followed by `fcntl`.
+                if let Some(libc::ENOSYS) = err.raw_os_error() {
+                    match syscall!(epoll_create(1024)) {
+                        Ok(ep) => match syscall!(fcntl(ep, libc::F_SETFD, libc::FD_CLOEXEC)) {
+                            Ok(ep) => ep as RawFd,
+                            Err(err) => {
+                                // `fcntl` failed, cleanup `ep`.
+                                let _ = unsafe { libc::close(ep) };
+                                return Err(err);
+                            }
+                        },
+                        Err(err) => return Err(err),
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    return Err(err);
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
         Ok(Selector {
             #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
             id: NEXT_ID.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed),
@@ -126,43 +159,6 @@ impl Drop for Selector {
     }
 }
 
-/// Creates a new epoll file descriptor with close-on-exec flag set.
-///
-/// close-on-exec is set atomically with `epoll_create1()` if possible,
-/// otherwise `epoll_create()` and `fcntl()` calls are used as a fallback.
-fn new_epoll_fd() -> io::Result<libc::c_int> {
-    // According to libuv, `EPOLL_CLOEXEC` is not defined on Android API <
-    // 21. But `EPOLL_CLOEXEC` is an alias for `O_CLOEXEC` on that platform,
-    // so we use it instead.
-    #[cfg(target_os = "android")]
-    let flag = libc::O_CLOEXEC;
-    #[cfg(not(target_os = "android"))]
-    let flag = libc::EPOLL_CLOEXEC;
-
-    #[cfg(not(target_os = "android"))]
-    let ep = syscall!(epoll_create1(flag))?;
-
-    // On Android try to use epoll_create1 syscall with an epoll_create fallback
-    // to support Android API level 16 which does not define epoll_create1 function.
-    #[cfg(target_os = "android")]
-    let ep = syscall!(syscall(libc::SYS_epoll_create1, flag))
-        .map(|fd| fd as libc::c_int)
-        .or_else(|e| {
-            match e.raw_os_error() {
-                Some(libc::ENOSYS) => {
-                    // Using epoll_create() followed by fcntl() instead of epoll_create1() with EPOLL_CLOEXEC
-                    // flag for backwards compatibility.
-                    let ep = syscall!(epoll_create(1024))?;
-
-                    syscall!(fcntl(ep, libc::F_SETFD, libc::FD_CLOEXEC)).map(|_| ep)
-                }
-                _ => Err(e),
-            }
-        })?;
-
-    Ok(ep)
-}
-
 fn interests_to_epoll(interests: Interest) -> u32 {
     let mut kind = EPOLLET;