diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java
index 96fca2448eb..97aa360f82e 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/DFSck.java
@@ -210,8 +210,14 @@ public class DFSck extends Configured implements Tool {
             allDone = true;
             break;
           }
+          if (line.startsWith("Access denied for user")) {
+            out.println("Failed to open path '" + dir + "': Permission denied");
+            errCode = -1;
+            return errCode;
+          }
           if ((line.isEmpty())
               || (line.startsWith("FSCK started by"))
+              || (line.startsWith("FSCK ended at"))
               || (line.startsWith("The filesystem under path")))
             continue;
           numCorrupt++;
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFsck.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFsck.java
index bb27d048d9a..2b5d7620d5c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFsck.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestFsck.java
@@ -2488,4 +2488,22 @@ public class TestFsck {
       runFsck(cluster.getConfiguration(0), 0, true, "/");
     }
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testFsckNonPrivilegedListCorrupt() throws Exception {
+    cluster = new MiniDFSCluster.Builder(conf).numDataNodes(4).build();
+    UserGroupInformation ugi = UserGroupInformation.createUserForTesting("systest", new String[]{""});
+    ugi.doAs(new PrivilegedExceptionAction<Void>() {
+       @Override
+        public Void run() throws Exception {
+         String path = "/";
+         String outStr = runFsck(conf, -1, true, path, "-list-corruptfileblocks");
+
+         assertFalse(outStr.contains("The list of corrupt files under path '" + path + "' are:"));
+         assertFalse(outStr.contains("The filesystem under path '" + path + "' has "));
+         assertTrue(outStr.contains("Failed to open path '" + path + "': Permission denied"));
+         return null;
+       }
+      });
+  }
 }