1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
index d4fb0383119..c67bea79bd3 100644
--- a/src/fileio.c
+++ b/src/fileio.c
@@ -1959,8 +1959,8 @@ on the system, we copy the SELinux context of FILE to NEWNAME.  */)
      owner and group.  */
   if (input_file_statable_p)
     {
-      if (!NILP (preserve_uid_gid) && fchown (ofd, st.st_uid, st.st_gid) != 0)
-        report_file_error ("Doing chown", Fcons (newname, Qnil));
+      if (!NILP (preserve_uid_gid))
+        fchown (ofd, st.st_uid, st.st_gid);
       if (fchmod (ofd, st.st_mode & 07777) != 0)
         report_file_error ("Doing chmod", Fcons (newname, Qnil));
     }