diff --git a/core/jni/android_server_Watchdog.cpp b/core/jni/android_server_Watchdog.cpp
index 7fa7cc79b4f6a..9e0ed478ee66d 100644
--- a/core/jni/android_server_Watchdog.cpp
+++ b/core/jni/android_server_Watchdog.cpp
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ static void dumpKernelStacks(JNIEnv* env, jobject clazz, jstring pathStr) {
 
     const char *path = env->GetStringUTFChars(pathStr, NULL);
 
-    int outFd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND | O_CREAT, S_IWUSR);
+    int outFd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND | O_CREAT,
+        S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH);
     if (outFd < 0) {
         LOGE("Unable to open stack dump file: %d (%s)", errno, strerror(errno));
         goto done;