diff --git a/charts/ceph-csi-cephfs/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml b/charts/ceph-csi-cephfs/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml
index e425f184050..ec61a67137b 100644
--- a/charts/ceph-csi-cephfs/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml
+++ b/charts/ceph-csi-cephfs/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ metadata:
     heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
     {{- with .Values.commonLabels }}{{ toYaml . | trim | nindent 4 }}{{- end }}
 rules:
-{{- if and .Values.readAffinity .Values.readAffinity.enabled }}
   - apiGroups: [""]
     resources: ["nodes"]
     verbs: ["get"]
-{{- end }}
 {{- end -}}
diff --git a/charts/ceph-csi-rbd/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml b/charts/ceph-csi-rbd/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml
index aa8ddd4fd6b..497d5a9b190 100644
--- a/charts/ceph-csi-rbd/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml
+++ b/charts/ceph-csi-rbd/templates/nodeplugin-clusterrole.yaml
@@ -11,11 +11,9 @@ metadata:
     heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
     {{- with .Values.commonLabels }}{{ toYaml . | trim | nindent 4 }}{{- end }}
 rules:
-{{- if .Values.topology.enabled }}
   - apiGroups: [""]
     resources: ["nodes"]
     verbs: ["get"]
-{{- end }}
   # allow to read Vault Token and connection options from the Tenants namespace
   - apiGroups: [""]
     resources: ["secrets"]
diff --git a/internal/rbd/driver/driver.go b/internal/rbd/driver/driver.go
index 4d7061b8e1e..c4c736c3447 100644
--- a/internal/rbd/driver/driver.go
+++ b/internal/rbd/driver/driver.go
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ func (r *Driver) Run(conf *util.Config) {
 			})
 	}
 
-	if k8s.RunsOnKubernetes() {
+	if k8s.RunsOnKubernetes() && conf.IsNodeServer {
 		nodeLabels, err = k8s.GetNodeLabels(conf.NodeID)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.FatalLogMsg(err.Error())