diff --git a/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info b/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info
index 6641c18..93e6ea7 100755
--- a/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info
+++ b/usr/lib/security-misc/hide-hardware-info
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ 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
   else
     echo "ERROR: The ${1} group does not exist, the ${1} whitelist was not created."
   fi