diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
index 0467eba7106..7153c90f03a 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2020-03-12  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>
 
+	* gcc_release (upload_files): Without -l, pass -m 755 to the mkdir
+	command invoked through ssh.
+
 	* update_web_docs_git: Drop SPHINXBUILD=/usr/bin/sphinx-1.0-build.
 
 2020-02-27  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release b/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
index 74cce1af18d..2456908d716 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ upload_files() {
   # Make sure the directory exists on the server.
   if [ $LOCAL -eq 0 ]; then
     ${SSH} -l ${GCC_USERNAME} ${GCC_HOSTNAME} \
-      mkdir -p "${FTP_PATH}/diffs"
+      mkdir -m 755 -p "${FTP_PATH}/diffs"
     UPLOAD_PATH="${GCC_USERNAME}@${GCC_HOSTNAME}:${FTP_PATH}"
   else
     mkdir -p "${FTP_PATH}/diffs" \