diff --git a/cmds/installd/utils.c b/cmds/installd/utils.c
index 420ad5ed3..120fd62b0 100644
--- a/cmds/installd/utils.c
+++ b/cmds/installd/utils.c
@@ -1036,50 +1036,27 @@ int ensure_config_user_dirs(userid_t userid) {
 
 int create_profile_file(const char *pkgname, gid_t gid) {
     const char *profile_dir = DALVIK_CACHE_PREFIX "profiles";
-    struct stat profileStat;
     char profile_file[PKG_PATH_MAX];
 
-    // If we don't have a profile directory under dalvik-cache we need to create one.
-    if (stat(profile_dir, &profileStat) < 0) {
-        // Create the profile directory under dalvik-cache.
-        if (mkdir(profile_dir, 0711) < 0) {
-            ALOGE("cannot make profile dir '%s': %s\n", profile_dir, strerror(errno));
-            return -1;
-        }
-
-        // Make the profile directory write-only for group and other. Owner can rwx it.
-        if (chmod(profile_dir, 0711) < 0) {
-            ALOGE("cannot chown profile dir '%s': %s\n", profile_dir, strerror(errno));
-            rmdir(profile_dir);
-            return -1;
-        }
-
-        if (selinux_android_restorecon(profile_dir, 0) < 0) {
-            ALOGE("cannot restorecon profile dir '%s': %s\n", profile_dir, strerror(errno));
-            rmdir(profile_dir);
-            return -1;
-        }
-    }
-
     snprintf(profile_file, sizeof(profile_file), "%s/%s", profile_dir, pkgname);
 
     // The 'system' user needs to be able to read the profile to determine if dex2oat
     // needs to be run.  This is done in dalvik.system.DexFile.isDexOptNeededInternal().  So
-    // we make it world readable.  Not a problem since the dalvik cache is world
-    // readable anyway.
+    // we assign ownership to AID_SYSTEM and ensure it's not world-readable.
 
-    int fd = open(profile_file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOFOLLOW, 0664);
+    int fd = open(profile_file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_NOFOLLOW | O_CLOEXEC, 0660);
 
-    // Open will fail if the file already exists.  We want to ignore that.
+    // Always set the uid/gid/permissions. The file could have been previously created
+    // with different permissions.
     if (fd >= 0) {
-        if (fchown(fd, -1, gid) < 0) {
+        if (fchown(fd, AID_SYSTEM, gid) < 0) {
             ALOGE("cannot chown profile file '%s': %s\n", profile_file, strerror(errno));
             close(fd);
             unlink(profile_file);
             return -1;
         }
 
-        if (fchmod(fd, 0664) < 0) {
+        if (fchmod(fd, 0660) < 0) {
             ALOGE("cannot chmod profile file '%s': %s\n", profile_file, strerror(errno));
             close(fd);
             unlink(profile_file);