diff --git a/fs/zonefs/super.c b/fs/zonefs/super.c
index 860f0b1032c6..abc9a85106f2 100644
--- a/fs/zonefs/super.c
+++ b/fs/zonefs/super.c
@@ -478,14 +478,22 @@ static void __zonefs_io_error(struct inode *inode, bool write)
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
 	struct zonefs_sb_info *sbi = ZONEFS_SB(sb);
 	unsigned int noio_flag;
-	unsigned int nr_zones =
-		zi->i_zone_size >> (sbi->s_zone_sectors_shift + SECTOR_SHIFT);
+	unsigned int nr_zones = 1;
 	struct zonefs_ioerr_data err = {
 		.inode = inode,
 		.write = write,
 	};
 	int ret;
 
+	/*
+	 * The only files that have more than one zone are conventional zone
+	 * files with aggregated conventional zones, for which the inode zone
+	 * size is always larger than the device zone size.
+	 */
+	if (zi->i_zone_size > bdev_zone_sectors(sb->s_bdev))
+		nr_zones = zi->i_zone_size >>
+			(sbi->s_zone_sectors_shift + SECTOR_SHIFT);
+
 	/*
 	 * Memory allocations in blkdev_report_zones() can trigger a memory
 	 * reclaim which may in turn cause a recursion into zonefs as well as
@@ -1407,6 +1415,14 @@ static int zonefs_init_file_inode(struct inode *inode, struct blk_zone *zone,
 	zi->i_ztype = type;
 	zi->i_zsector = zone->start;
 	zi->i_zone_size = zone->len << SECTOR_SHIFT;
+	if (zi->i_zone_size > bdev_zone_sectors(sb->s_bdev) << SECTOR_SHIFT &&
+	    !(sbi->s_features & ZONEFS_F_AGGRCNV)) {
+		zonefs_err(sb,
+			   "zone size %llu doesn't match device's zone sectors %llu\n",
+			   zi->i_zone_size,
+			   bdev_zone_sectors(sb->s_bdev) << SECTOR_SHIFT);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	zi->i_max_size = min_t(loff_t, MAX_LFS_FILESIZE,
 			       zone->capacity << SECTOR_SHIFT);
@@ -1456,11 +1472,11 @@ static struct dentry *zonefs_create_inode(struct dentry *parent,
 	struct inode *dir = d_inode(parent);
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct inode *inode;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
 	dentry = d_alloc_name(parent, name);
 	if (!dentry)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(ret);
 
 	inode = new_inode(parent->d_sb);
 	if (!inode)
@@ -1485,7 +1501,7 @@ static struct dentry *zonefs_create_inode(struct dentry *parent,
 dput:
 	dput(dentry);
 
-	return NULL;
+	return ERR_PTR(ret);
 }
 
 struct zonefs_zone_data {
@@ -1505,7 +1521,7 @@ static int zonefs_create_zgroup(struct zonefs_zone_data *zd,
 	struct blk_zone *zone, *next, *end;
 	const char *zgroup_name;
 	char *file_name;
-	struct dentry *dir;
+	struct dentry *dir, *dent;
 	unsigned int n = 0;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -1523,8 +1539,8 @@ static int zonefs_create_zgroup(struct zonefs_zone_data *zd,
 		zgroup_name = "seq";
 
 	dir = zonefs_create_inode(sb->s_root, zgroup_name, NULL, type);
-	if (!dir) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
+	if (IS_ERR(dir)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(dir);
 		goto free;
 	}
 
@@ -1570,8 +1586,9 @@ static int zonefs_create_zgroup(struct zonefs_zone_data *zd,
 		 * Use the file number within its group as file name.
 		 */
 		snprintf(file_name, ZONEFS_NAME_MAX - 1, "%u", n);
-		if (!zonefs_create_inode(dir, file_name, zone, type)) {
-			ret = -ENOMEM;
+		dent = zonefs_create_inode(dir, file_name, zone, type);
+		if (IS_ERR(dent)) {
+			ret = PTR_ERR(dent);
 			goto free;
 		}
 
diff --git a/fs/zonefs/sysfs.c b/fs/zonefs/sysfs.c
index 9cb6755ce39a..9920689dc098 100644
--- a/fs/zonefs/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/zonefs/sysfs.c
@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ struct zonefs_sysfs_attr {
 	ssize_t (*show)(struct zonefs_sb_info *sbi, char *buf);
 };
 
-static inline struct zonefs_sysfs_attr *to_attr(struct attribute *attr)
-{
-	return container_of(attr, struct zonefs_sysfs_attr, attr);
-}
-
 #define ZONEFS_SYSFS_ATTR_RO(name) \
 static struct zonefs_sysfs_attr zonefs_sysfs_attr_##name = __ATTR_RO(name)