diff --git a/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/ioevent.c b/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/ioevent.c
index e3fb3411db0..c3e6ff3f660 100644
--- a/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/ioevent.c
+++ b/reactos/ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/ioevent.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ IopCreateEvent(IN PUNICODE_STRING EventName,
     /* Initialize the object attributes */
     InitializeObjectAttributes(&ObjectAttributes,
                                EventName,
-                               OBJ_OPENIF,
+                               OBJ_OPENIF | OBJ_KERNEL_HANDLE,
                                NULL,
                                NULL);