diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index c7e01d9667ad..ea1fa41fbba8 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -2352,7 +2352,6 @@ static const struct block_device_operations nvme_fops = {
 	.open		= nvme_open,
 	.release	= nvme_release,
 	.getgeo		= nvme_getgeo,
-	.revalidate_disk= nvme_revalidate_disk,
 	.report_zones	= nvme_report_zones,
 	.pr_ops		= &nvme_pr_ops,
 };
@@ -4053,14 +4052,19 @@ static void nvme_ns_remove_by_nsid(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, u32 nsid)
 static void nvme_validate_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, unsigned nsid)
 {
 	struct nvme_ns *ns;
+	int ret;
 
 	ns = nvme_find_get_ns(ctrl, nsid);
-	if (ns) {
-		if (revalidate_disk(ns->disk))
-			nvme_ns_remove(ns);
-		nvme_put_ns(ns);
-	} else
+	if (!ns) {
 		nvme_alloc_ns(ctrl, nsid);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	ret = nvme_revalidate_disk(ns->disk);
+	revalidate_disk_size(ns->disk, ret == 0);
+	if (ret)
+		nvme_ns_remove(ns);
+	nvme_put_ns(ns);
 }
 
 static void nvme_remove_invalid_namespaces(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,