diff --git a/src/rgw/rgw_op.cc b/src/rgw/rgw_op.cc
index 252adab7c0df5..f131c35e9068a 100644
--- a/src/rgw/rgw_op.cc
+++ b/src/rgw/rgw_op.cc
@@ -3703,7 +3703,6 @@ void RGWCreateBucket::execute(optional_yield y)
 
   if (!driver->is_meta_master()) {
     // apply bucket creation on the master zone first
-    bufferlist in_data;
     JSONParser jp;
     op_ret = rgw_forward_request_to_master(this, *s->penv.site, s->owner.id,
                                            &in_data, &jp, s->info, y);
diff --git a/src/rgw/rgw_op.h b/src/rgw/rgw_op.h
index 9f747501729e0..feddb21eb56d4 100644
--- a/src/rgw/rgw_op.h
+++ b/src/rgw/rgw_op.h
@@ -1111,6 +1111,7 @@ class RGWCreateBucket : public RGWOp {
   bool relaxed_region_enforcement = false;
   RGWCORSConfiguration cors_config;
   std::set<std::string> rmattr_names;
+  bufferlist in_data;
 
   virtual bool need_metadata_upload() const { return false; }
 
diff --git a/src/rgw/rgw_rest_s3.cc b/src/rgw/rgw_rest_s3.cc
index 30ebe8e8965c3..13f6bb0015a4c 100644
--- a/src/rgw/rgw_rest_s3.cc
+++ b/src/rgw/rgw_rest_s3.cc
@@ -2533,6 +2533,10 @@ int RGWCreateBucket_ObjStore_S3::get_params(optional_yield y)
   if ((op_ret < 0) && (op_ret != -ERR_LENGTH_REQUIRED))
     return op_ret;
 
+  if (!driver->is_meta_master()) {
+    in_data.append(data);
+  }
+
   if (data.length()) {
     RGWCreateBucketParser parser;