diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index e46d237b10f9..8a7d0035ad7a 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
 	if (!get_capacity(disk) || !(state = check_partition(disk, bdev)))
 		return 0;
 	if (IS_ERR(state))	/* I/O error reading the partition table */
-		return PTR_ERR(state);
+		return -EIO;
 	for (p = 1; p < state->limit; p++) {
 		sector_t size = state->parts[p].size;
 		sector_t from = state->parts[p].from;