diff --git a/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c b/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c
index bfec37c2cddc..1b99f74801d5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c
@@ -3357,6 +3357,8 @@ kgsl_mmap_memstore(struct kgsl_device *device, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_MAYWRITE;
+
 	if (memdesc->size  !=  vma_size) {
 		KGSL_MEM_ERR(device, "memstore bad size: %d should be %llu\n",
 			     vma_size, memdesc->size);