diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 750819f6cdca..ab0d486b4d52 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 40424f5fff65c7ae8763ca69ff3a9b8ddd8e2760
+refs/heads/master: 0bffd25ce919f88ea6473150b66d26e7fa5712af
diff --git a/trunk/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/trunk/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index 5c052dbcaf75..0358ad26d2fd 100644
--- a/trunk/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/trunk/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static int kvp_file_init(void)
 	int alloc_unit = sizeof(struct kvp_record) * ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK;
 
 	if (access(KVP_CONFIG_LOC, F_OK)) {
-		if (mkdir(KVP_CONFIG_LOC, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IROTH)) {
+		if (mkdir(KVP_CONFIG_LOC, 0755 /* rwxr-xr-x */)) {
 			syslog(LOG_ERR, " Failed to create %s", KVP_CONFIG_LOC);
 			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 		}
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int kvp_file_init(void)
 		records_read = 0;
 		num_blocks = 1;
 		sprintf(fname, "%s/.kvp_pool_%d", KVP_CONFIG_LOC, i);
-		fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IROTH);
+		fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0644 /* rw-r--r-- */);
 
 		if (fd == -1)
 			return 1;