diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
index a883fcafa6..334ec1cc14 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
@@ -478,14 +478,14 @@ class Filesystem
             throw new IOException(sprintf('Failed to write file "%s".', $filename), 0, null, $filename);
         }
 
-        $this->rename($tmpFile, $filename, true);
         if (null !== $mode) {
             if (func_num_args() > 2) {
                 @trigger_error('Support for modifying file permissions is deprecated since version 2.3.12 and will be removed in 3.0.', E_USER_DEPRECATED);
             }
 
-            $this->chmod($filename, $mode);
+            $this->chmod($tmpFile, $mode);
         }
+        $this->rename($tmpFile, $filename, true);
     }
 
     /**