diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
index 3b62cf288031..f955d7252e4f 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ rpc_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	sb->s_op = &s_ops;
 	sb->s_time_gran = 1;
 
-	inode = rpc_get_inode(sb, S_IFDIR | 0755);
+	inode = rpc_get_inode(sb, S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO);
 	sb->s_root = root = d_make_root(inode);
 	if (!root)
 		return -ENOMEM;