diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 9afa4393c21728cb5c0cbd675b6c25966fe99175..9f8470353362584d2fbd14e12a966a0fecec193d 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ static int create_cache_proc_entries(struct cache_detail *cd, struct net *net)
 			goto out_nomem;
 	}
 	if (cd->cache_show) {
-		p = proc_create_data("content", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR,
+		p = proc_create_data("content", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR,
 				cd->u.procfs.proc_ent,
 				&content_file_operations_procfs, cd);
 		cd->u.procfs.content_ent = p;