diff --git a/src/hotspot/os/posix/include/jvm_md.h b/src/hotspot/os/posix/include/jvm_md.h
index e550ecbb000dd..469738d01eb58 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/os/posix/include/jvm_md.h
+++ b/src/hotspot/os/posix/include/jvm_md.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 //       cause problems if JVM and the rest of JDK are built on different
 //       Linux releases. Here we define JVM_MAXPATHLEN to be MAXPATHLEN + 1,
 //       so buffers declared in VM are always >= 4096.
-#define JVM_MAXPATHLEN MAXPATHLEN + 1
+#define JVM_MAXPATHLEN (MAXPATHLEN + 1)
 #endif
 
 #define JVM_R_OK    R_OK