diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
index 35444c8e9064..8f3c0f7aca5a 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ module_param_named(logsyscall, aa_g_logsyscall, aabool, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
 
 /* Maximum pathname length before accesses will start getting rejected */
 unsigned int aa_g_path_max = 2 * PATH_MAX;
-module_param_named(path_max, aa_g_path_max, aauint, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
+module_param_named(path_max, aa_g_path_max, aauint, S_IRUSR);
 
 /* Determines how paranoid loading of policy is and how much verification
  * on the loaded policy is done.