diff --git a/src/broadcom/cle/v3d_decoder.c b/src/broadcom/cle/v3d_decoder.c
index 099dc563418..7910edde30e 100644
--- a/src/broadcom/cle/v3d_decoder.c
+++ b/src/broadcom/cle/v3d_decoder.c
@@ -672,6 +672,7 @@ v3d_spec_load(const struct v3d_device_info *devinfo)
                                     sizeof(compress_genxmls),
                                     (void **) &text_data);
         assert(text_offset + text_length <= total_length);
+        assert(text_data);
 
         buf = XML_GetBuffer(ctx.parser, text_length);
         memcpy(buf, &text_data[text_offset], text_length);