diff --git a/tez-plugins/tez-protobuf-history-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/dag/history/logging/proto/DatePartitionedLogger.java b/tez-plugins/tez-protobuf-history-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/dag/history/logging/proto/DatePartitionedLogger.java
index a569567d1e..99bc50d883 100644
--- a/tez-plugins/tez-protobuf-history-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/dag/history/logging/proto/DatePartitionedLogger.java
+++ b/tez-plugins/tez-protobuf-history-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/tez/dag/history/logging/proto/DatePartitionedLogger.java
@@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ private void createDirIfNotExists(Path path) throws IOException {
     FileSystem fileSystem = path.getFileSystem(conf);
     try {
       if (!fileSystem.exists(path)) {
-        fileSystem.mkdirs(path);
-        fileSystem.setPermission(path, DIR_PERMISSION);
+        fileSystem.mkdirs(path, DIR_PERMISSION);
       }
     } catch (IOException e) {
       // Ignore this exception, if there is a problem it'll fail when trying to read or write.