From 68f80b5fe75db016ce0190bc80e6297a631074e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Poorna <poornas@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 18:53:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] replication: ignore retention mode validation for replica
 (#17332)

---
 cmd/bucket-object-lock.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cmd/bucket-object-lock.go b/cmd/bucket-object-lock.go
index 955c2fc12..887ba43bf 100644
--- a/cmd/bucket-object-lock.go
+++ b/cmd/bucket-object-lock.go
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ func checkPutObjectLockAllowed(ctx context.Context, rq *http.Request, bucket, ob
 			return mode, retainDate, legalHold, toAPIErrorCode(ctx, err)
 		}
 		rMode, rDate, err := objectlock.ParseObjectLockRetentionHeaders(rq.Header)
-		if err != nil {
+		if err != nil && !(replica && rMode == "" && rDate.IsZero()) {
 			return mode, retainDate, legalHold, toAPIErrorCode(ctx, err)
 		}
 		if retentionPermErr != ErrNone {