diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c
index 232744973ab8..b1feb6f6ebe8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_params.c
@@ -4181,6 +4181,8 @@ ia_css_3a_statistics_allocate(const struct ia_css_3a_grid_info *grid)
 		goto err;
 	/* No weighted histogram, no structure, treat the histogram data as a byte dump in a byte array */
 	me->rgby_data = kvmalloc(sizeof_hmem(HMEM0_ID), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!me->rgby_data)
+		goto err;
 
 	IA_CSS_LEAVE("return=%p", me);
 	return me;