diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py
index bd0e01d045d17..521fea70fc98a 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class BlockHashType(NamedTuple):
 # This aligns with the behavior of Python's hash() function, which also uses
 # a random seed if PYTHONHASHSEED is not set.
 NONE_HASH = int.from_bytes(os.urandom(32), byteorder="big") if os.getenv(
-    'PYTHONHASHSEED') is not None else sha256(os.getenv('PYTHONHASHSEED'))
+    'PYTHONHASHSEED') is None else sha256(os.getenv('PYTHONHASHSEED'))
 
 
 class PrefixCachingMetrics: