diff --git a/net/mptcp/ctrl.c b/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
index 38d8121331d4a9..d9b57fab2a13e6 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/ctrl.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static struct ctl_table mptcp_sysctl_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname = "available_schedulers",
 		.maxlen	= MPTCP_SCHED_BUF_MAX,
-		.mode = 0644,
+		.mode = 0444,
 		.proc_handler = proc_available_schedulers,
 	},
 	{