diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/hal/rc/rc_gv11b.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/hal/rc/rc_gv11b.c
index d420a7212..93648384b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/hal/rc/rc_gv11b.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/hal/rc/rc_gv11b.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015-2021, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ void gv11b_fifo_recover(struct gk20a *g, u32 act_eng_bitmask,
 		nvgpu_tsg_set_unserviceable(g, tsg);
 	}
 
-	if (rc_type == RC_TYPE_MMU_FAULT && mmufault != NULL) {
+	if (rc_type == RC_TYPE_MMU_FAULT) {
 		if (mmufault->faulted_pbdma != INVAL_ID) {
 			pbdma_bitmask = BIT32(mmufault->faulted_pbdma);
 		}