diff --git a/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/admin/storage/UpdateStoragePoolCmd.java b/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/admin/storage/UpdateStoragePoolCmd.java
index f2d7bbeb189e..6f522fe1e8cd 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/admin/storage/UpdateStoragePoolCmd.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/admin/storage/UpdateStoragePoolCmd.java
@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ public void execute() {
         if (ObjectUtils.anyNotNull(name, capacityIops, capacityBytes, url, isTagARule, tags) ||
                 MapUtils.isNotEmpty(details)) {
             result = _storageService.updateStoragePool(this);
+        } else {
+            result = _storageService.getStoragePool(getId());
         }
 
         if (enabled != null) {
diff --git a/test/integration/smoke/test_direct_download.py b/test/integration/smoke/test_direct_download.py
index 6570bb9f0b3c..e6960163bc22 100644
--- a/test/integration/smoke/test_direct_download.py
+++ b/test/integration/smoke/test_direct_download.py
@@ -251,7 +251,10 @@ def getCurrentStoragePoolTags(self, poolId):
             self.apiclient,
             id=poolId
         )
-        return local_pool[0].tags
+        if local_pool[0].tags:
+            return local_pool[0].tags
+        else:
+            return ""
 
     def updateStoragePoolTags(self, poolId, tags):
         StoragePool.update(