1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c
index 8b47e4200e65..d26402ff06ea 100644
--- a/fs/eventfd.c
+++ b/fs/eventfd.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ struct file *eventfd_file_create(unsigned int count, int flags)
         ctx->flags = flags;
 
         file = anon_inode_getfile("[eventfd]", &eventfd_fops, ctx,
-                                  flags & EFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS);
+                                  O_RDWR | (flags & EFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS));
         if (IS_ERR(file))
                 eventfd_free_ctx(ctx);