diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index cd69f4d25f30..070599f501ea 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: daa88c8d214ca4ab2f1764b6e503cef4b3cde9b2
+refs/heads/master: 6ff1b4426e3afc61dcb67299709fde9041d59265
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/sysctl.c b/trunk/kernel/sysctl.c
index 600b33358ded..41bbba1a15da 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ int proc_dointvec_bset(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
 {
 	int op;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) {
+	if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) {
 		return -EPERM;
 	}