diff --git a/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info b/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info
index a07d962..68b2d1e 100755
--- a/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info
+++ b/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info
@@ -24,16 +24,11 @@ create_whitelist() {
 
   if grep -q "${1}" /etc/group; then
     chmod o-rwx "${whitelist_path}"
-    chgrp -fR "${1}" "${whitelist_path}"
 
     ## Changing the permissions of /sys recursively
     ## causes errors as the permissions of /sys/kernel/debug
-    ## and /sys/fs/cgroup cannot be changed which makes
-    ## systemd say the service has failed even though
-    ## everything has completed successfully. So, this
-    ## returns "0" instead which makes systemd say the
-    ## service has succeeded.
-    return 0
+    ## and /sys/fs/cgroup cannot be changed.
+    chgrp -fR "${1}" "${whitelist_path}" || true
   else
     echo "ERROR: The ${1} group does not exist, the ${1} whitelist was not created."
   fi