diff --git a/lib/private/Files/Storage/Common.php b/lib/private/Files/Storage/Common.php
index 7239c58a8a103..ff9260829012e 100644
--- a/lib/private/Files/Storage/Common.php
+++ b/lib/private/Files/Storage/Common.php
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 use OCP\Files\Storage\ILockingStorage;
 use OCP\Files\Storage\IStorage;
 use OCP\Files\Storage\IWriteStreamStorage;
+use OCP\Files\StorageNotAvailableException;
 use OCP\ILogger;
 use OCP\Lock\ILockingProvider;
 use OCP\Lock\LockedException;
@@ -877,6 +878,11 @@ public function writeStream(string $path, $stream, int $size = null): int {
 
 	public function getDirectoryContent($directory): \Traversable {
 		$dh = $this->opendir($directory);
+
+		if ($dh === false) {
+			throw new StorageNotAvailableException('Directory listing failed');
+		}
+
 		if (is_resource($dh)) {
 			$basePath = rtrim($directory, '/');
 			while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {