size_t size;
        char *object_name;
        void *response;
-       void *p;
-
-       /* If we already have it we don't need to look it up */
-
-       if (rbd_dev->spec->image_id)
-               return 0;
+       char *image_id;
 
        /*
         * When probing a parent image, the image id is already
         * known (and the image name likely is not).  There's no
-        * need to fetch the image id again in this case.
+        * need to fetch the image id again in this case.  We
+        * do still need to set the image format though.
         */
-       if (rbd_dev->spec->image_id)
+       if (rbd_dev->spec->image_id) {
+               rbd_dev->image_format = *rbd_dev->spec->image_id ? 2 : 1;
+
                return 0;
+       }
 
        /*
         * First, see if the format 2 image id file exists, and if
                goto out;
        }
 
+       /* If it doesn't exist we'll assume it's a format 1 image */
+
        ret = rbd_obj_method_sync(rbd_dev, object_name,
                                "rbd", "get_id", NULL, 0,
                                response, RBD_IMAGE_ID_LEN_MAX, NULL);
        dout("%s: rbd_obj_method_sync returned %d\n", __func__, ret);
-       if (ret < 0)
-               goto out;
-
-       p = response;
-       rbd_dev->spec->image_id = ceph_extract_encoded_string(&p,
-                                               p + ret,
+       if (ret == -ENOENT) {
+               image_id = kstrdup("", GFP_KERNEL);
+               ret = image_id ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+               if (!ret)
+                       rbd_dev->image_format = 1;
+       } else if (ret > sizeof (__le32)) {
+               void *p = response;
+
+               image_id = ceph_extract_encoded_string(&p, p + ret,
                                                NULL, GFP_NOIO);
-       ret = 0;
-
-       if (IS_ERR(rbd_dev->spec->image_id)) {
-               ret = PTR_ERR(rbd_dev->spec->image_id);
-               rbd_dev->spec->image_id = NULL;
+               ret = IS_ERR(image_id) ? PTR_ERR(image_id) : 0;
+               if (!ret)
+                       rbd_dev->image_format = 2;
        } else {
-               dout("image_id is %s\n", rbd_dev->spec->image_id);
+               ret = -EINVAL;
+       }
+
+       if (!ret) {
+               rbd_dev->spec->image_id = image_id;
+               dout("image_id is %s\n", image_id);
        }
 out:
        kfree(response);
        int ret;
        size_t size;
 
-       /* Version 1 images have no id; empty string is used */
-
-       rbd_dev->spec->image_id = kstrdup("", GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!rbd_dev->spec->image_id)
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
        /* Record the header object name for this rbd image. */
 
        size = strlen(rbd_dev->spec->image_name) + sizeof (RBD_SUFFIX);
        rbd_dev->parent_spec = NULL;
        rbd_dev->parent_overlap = 0;
 
-       rbd_dev->image_format = 1;
-
        dout("discovered version 1 image, header name is %s\n",
                rbd_dev->header_name);
 
                goto out_err;
        rbd_dev->header.obj_version = ver;
 
-       rbd_dev->image_format = 2;
-
        dout("discovered version 2 image, header name is %s\n",
                rbd_dev->header_name);
 
         */
        ret = rbd_dev_image_id(rbd_dev);
        if (ret)
+               return ret;
+       rbd_assert(rbd_dev->spec->image_id);
+       rbd_assert(rbd_image_format_valid(rbd_dev->image_format));
+
+       if (rbd_dev->image_format == 1)
                ret = rbd_dev_v1_probe(rbd_dev);
        else
                ret = rbd_dev_v2_probe(rbd_dev);