diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 9f69dc526f8c..a9ecec4e9a13 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -2467,7 +2467,7 @@ static int narrow_write_error(struct r10bio *r10_bio, int i)
 				   choose_data_offset(r10_bio, rdev) +
 				   (sector - r10_bio->sector));
 		wbio->bi_bdev = rdev->bdev;
-		if (submit_bio_wait(WRITE, wbio) == 0)
+		if (submit_bio_wait(WRITE, wbio) < 0)
 			/* Failure! */
 			ok = rdev_set_badblocks(rdev, sector,
 						sectors, 0)