diff --git a/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/revisions.go b/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/revisions.go
index 0cb3782308..c079c3bddb 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/revisions.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/utils/decomposedfs/revisions.go
@@ -272,11 +272,15 @@ func (fs *Decomposedfs) RestoreRevision(ctx context.Context, ref *provider.Refer
 		return errtypes.InternalError("failed to copy blob xattrs to old revision to node: " + err.Error())
 	}
 	// always set the node mtime to the current time
-	fs.lu.MetadataBackend().SetMultiple(ctx, nodePath,
+	err = fs.lu.MetadataBackend().SetMultiple(ctx, nodePath,
 		map[string][]byte{
 			prefixes.MTimeAttr: []byte(time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339Nano)),
 		},
 		false)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errtypes.InternalError("failed to set mtime attribute on node: " + err.Error())
+	}
+
 	revisionSize, err := fs.lu.MetadataBackend().GetInt64(ctx, restoredRevisionPath, prefixes.BlobsizeAttr)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errtypes.InternalError("failed to read blob size xattr from old revision")