I have set up the 2.2.1 version of Jira plugin for jenkins with my jenkins instance. I am having issue with "Create jira issue" upon job failure. The update relevant jira issue part is working fine.

The job faile ar create jira issue step

Below is the error that i am getting (from console output)

ERROR: Build step failed with exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraCreateIssueNotifier.getStatus(JiraCreateIssueNotifier.java:186)
at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraCreateIssueNotifier.currentBuildResultFailure(JiraCreateIssueNotifier.java:332)
at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraCreateIssueNotifier.perform(JiraCreateIssueNotifier.java:133)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:45)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:785)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:726)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:185)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:671)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1766)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:408)
Build step 'Create Jira Issue' marked build as failure

Need help fixing it.