diff --git a/cmds/incidentd/src/Section.cpp b/cmds/incidentd/src/Section.cpp
index 8494f98..ddb54c1 100644
--- a/cmds/incidentd/src/Section.cpp
+++ b/cmds/incidentd/src/Section.cpp
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 
     // read from mFilename and pump buffer to incident_helper
     status_t err = NO_ERROR;
-    int fd = open(mFilename, O_RDONLY, 0444);
+    int fd = open(mFilename, O_RDONLY);
     if (fd == -1) {
        ALOGW("FileSection '%s' failed to open file", this->name.string());
        return -errno;
diff --git a/cmds/incidentd/tests/FdBuffer_test.cpp b/cmds/incidentd/tests/FdBuffer_test.cpp
index c8fcaaf..ca5eec8 100644
--- a/cmds/incidentd/tests/FdBuffer_test.cpp
+++ b/cmds/incidentd/tests/FdBuffer_test.cpp
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
 
 TEST_F(FdBufferTest, ReadInStreamMoreThan4MB) {
     const std::string testFile = kTestDataPath + "morethan4MB.txt";
-    int fd = open(testFile.c_str(), O_RDONLY, 0444);
+    int fd = open(testFile.c_str(), O_RDONLY);
     ASSERT_NE(fd, -1);
     int pid = fork();
     ASSERT_TRUE(pid != -1);