diff --git a/cmd/data-usage-cache.go b/cmd/data-usage-cache.go
index 2cfa4c79f..04dff0db3 100644
--- a/cmd/data-usage-cache.go
+++ b/cmd/data-usage-cache.go
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ type objectIO interface {
 // Only backend errors are returned as errors.
 // If the object is not found or unable to deserialize d is cleared and nil error is returned.
 func (d *dataUsageCache) load(ctx context.Context, store objectIO, name string) error {
-	r, err := store.GetObjectNInfo(ctx, dataUsageBucket, name, nil, http.Header{}, noLock, ObjectOptions{})
+	r, err := store.GetObjectNInfo(ctx, dataUsageBucket, name, nil, http.Header{}, readLock, ObjectOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		switch err.(type) {
 		case ObjectNotFound: