diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2906dc55d25b01df4adbc6f6bf5e1b6b82a84d76..7701a6fc5e46d1f4b717cb3a679efb57815d59c6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and administrators.
  -- BGQ: Fix race condition when job fails due to hardware failure and is
     requeued. Previous code could result in slurmctld abort with NULL pointer.
  -- Prevent negative job array index, which could cause slurmctld to crash.
+ -- Fix issue with squeue/scontrol showing correct node_cnt when only tasks
+    are specified.
 
 * Changes in Slurm 14.03.9
 ==========================
diff --git a/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c b/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
index 83f1c94e673eb08851a84b549d0f6d05bab66c89..a08bfa36df22fd9d245a6d5e8c31fca068787d50 100644
--- a/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
+++ b/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
@@ -7936,7 +7936,9 @@ static void _pack_default_job_details(struct job_record *job_ptr,
 				pack32(min_nodes, buffer);
 				pack32(detail_ptr->max_nodes, buffer);
 			} else if (detail_ptr->mc_ptr &&
-				   detail_ptr->mc_ptr->ntasks_per_core) {
+				   detail_ptr->mc_ptr->ntasks_per_core &&
+				   (detail_ptr->mc_ptr->ntasks_per_core
+				    != (uint16_t)INFINITE)) {
 				/* min_nodes based upon task count and ntasks
 				 * per core */
 				uint32_t min_cores, min_nodes;