Simple queries fail with permissions error on scratch dir when querying read-only tables in HDFS

When attempting to do a simple query from a read-only directory in HDFS, Hive throws an error:

hive> select * from roschema.rotable limit 1;
FAILED: RuntimeException Cannot create staging directory 'hdfs://namespace1/roschema/rotable/.hive-staging_hive_2015-01-13_11-46-26_360_6089305184846884137-1': Permission denied: user=cecondit, access=WRITE, inode="/roschema/rotable":other-user:other-group:drwxr-xr-x

Hive appears to be trying to create the scratch directory under the SOURCE table directory, which fails as the current user doesn't have write access.

However, executing this query works:

select * from (select * from roschema.rotable limit 1) a;

However, this results in a MR job being kicked off. There appears to be no way to do simple ad-hoc limit queries without triggering the error.

To reproduce, simply create a table as one user, and attempt to query it as another. If the query user doesn't have write access to the source table, the error occurs.

I suspect this occurs in 5.2.1 as well based on the changelog, but that hasn't been verified here.