diff --git a/fs/ceph/acl.c b/fs/ceph/acl.c
index aa55f412a6e35c..26be6520d3fb1e 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/acl.c
@@ -222,8 +222,8 @@ int ceph_pre_init_acls(struct inode *dir, umode_t *mode,
 		err = ceph_pagelist_reserve(pagelist, len + val_size2 + 8);
 		if (err)
 			goto out_err;
-		err = ceph_pagelist_encode_string(pagelist,
-						  XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT, len);
+		ceph_pagelist_encode_string(pagelist,
+					  XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT, len);
 		err = posix_acl_to_xattr(&init_user_ns, default_acl,
 					 tmp_buf, val_size2);
 		if (err < 0)