Signed-off-by: gene@freetz.org

--- debugfs/dump.c
+++ debugfs/dump.c
@@ -70,6 +70,14 @@
 	return mode;
 }
 
+static int is_root_process() {
+	static int value = -1;
+	if (value < 0) {
+		value = (geteuid() == 0) ? 1 : 0;
+	}
+	return value;
+}
+
 static void fix_perms(const char *cmd, const struct ext2_inode *inode,
 		      int fd, const char *name)
 {
@@ -91,7 +99,7 @@
 	else
 		i = chown(name, inode->i_uid, inode->i_gid);
 #endif
-	if (i == -1)
+	if (i == -1 && is_root_process())
 		com_err(cmd, errno, "while changing ownership of %s", name);
 
 	ut.actime = inode->i_atime;
@@ -318,13 +326,13 @@
 		}
 
 		if (mknod(fullname, chrdev ? S_IFCHR : S_IFBLK, makedev(major, minor)) == -1) {
-			com_err("rdump", errno, "while creating %s device file %s", (chrdev ? "character" : "block"), fullname);
+			com_err("rdump", is_root_process() ? errno : 0, is_root_process() ? "while creating %s device file %s" : "skipping creating %s device file %s in non-root mode", (chrdev ? "character" : "block"), fullname);
 			goto errout;
 		}
 		fix_perms("rdump", inode, -1, fullname);
 	} else if (LINUX_S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode)) {
 		if (mknod(fullname, S_IFIFO, 0) == -1) {
-			com_err("rdump", errno, "while creating FIFO %s", fullname);
+			com_err("rdump", is_root_process() ? errno : 0, is_root_process() ? "while creating FIFO %s" : "skipping creating FIFO %s", fullname);
 			goto errout;
 		}
 		fix_perms("rdump", inode, -1, fullname);