diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/cloud/cloudstack/cs_ip_address.py b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/cloud/cloudstack/cs_ip_address.py
index bd3a4427e1..2a5e968cf1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/cloud/cloudstack/cs_ip_address.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/cloud/cloudstack/cs_ip_address.py
@@ -202,8 +202,7 @@ class AnsibleCloudStackIPAddress(AnsibleCloudStack):
 
             poll_async = self.module.params.get('poll_async')
             if poll_async:
-                res = self.poll_job(res, 'ipaddress')
-            ip_address = res
+                ip_address = self.poll_job(res, 'ipaddress')
         return ip_address