diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index cb5ebb0b2dd0..d1f6ff77d7e0 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -793,6 +793,10 @@ static int taskstats2_foreach(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 	nla = nla_find(nlmsg_attrdata(cb->nlh, GENL_HDRLEN),
 			nlmsg_attrlen(cb->nlh, GENL_HDRLEN),
 			TASKSTATS_TYPE_FOREACH);
+
+	if (!nla)
+		goto out;
+
 	buf  = nla_get_u32(nla);
 	oom_score_min = (short) (buf & 0xFFFF);
 	oom_score_max = (short) ((buf >> 16) & 0xFFFF);
@@ -850,6 +854,7 @@ static int taskstats2_foreach(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 	}
 
 	cb->args[0] = iter.tgid;
+out:
 	return skb->len;
 }