diff --git a/fs/fhandle.c b/fs/fhandle.c
index f775bfd..26f12b9 100644
--- a/fs/fhandle.c
+++ b/fs/fhandle.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 	handle_bytes = handle_dwords * sizeof(u32);
 	handle->handle_bytes = handle_bytes;
 	if ((handle->handle_bytes > f_handle.handle_bytes) ||
-	    (retval == 255) || (retval == -ENOSPC)) {
+	    (retval == FILEID_INVALID) || (retval == -ENOSPC)) {
 		/* As per old exportfs_encode_fh documentation
 		 * we could return ENOSPC to indicate overflow
 		 * But file system returned 255 always. So handle