diff --git a/drivers/char/mspec.c b/drivers/char/mspec.c
index 7ac30612068b674e742fb5577ed169148347f03f..c716ef0dd370af5043590d12d314e8981daac754 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mspec.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mspec.c
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ mspec_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int type)
 	vdata->refcnt = ATOMIC_INIT(1);
 	vma->vm_private_data = vdata;
 
-	vma->vm_flags |= (VM_IO | VM_LOCKED | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP);
+	vma->vm_flags |= (VM_IO | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP);
 	if (vdata->type == MSPEC_FETCHOP || vdata->type == MSPEC_UNCACHED)
 		vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
 	vma->vm_ops = &mspec_vm_ops;