diff --git a/cmd/zed/agents/zfs_mod.c b/cmd/zed/agents/zfs_mod.c
index 44abb4eb9a34..cce56eec3265 100644
--- a/cmd/zed/agents/zfs_mod.c
+++ b/cmd/zed/agents/zfs_mod.c
@@ -948,14 +948,13 @@ vdev_whole_disk_from_config(zpool_handle_t *zhp, const char *vdev_path)
 {
 	nvlist_t *nvl = NULL;
 	boolean_t avail_spare, l2cache, log;
-	uint64_t wholedisk;
+	uint64_t wholedisk = 0;
 
 	nvl = zpool_find_vdev(zhp, vdev_path, &avail_spare, &l2cache, &log);
 	if (!nvl)
 		return (0);
 
-	verify(nvlist_lookup_uint64(nvl, ZPOOL_CONFIG_WHOLE_DISK,
-	    &wholedisk) == 0);
+	(void) nvlist_lookup_uint64(nvl, ZPOOL_CONFIG_WHOLE_DISK, &wholedisk);
 
 	return (wholedisk);
 }