diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c
index 2b8700b291a4..ef47fb2f6905 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c
@@ -1796,6 +1796,9 @@ void dcn32_add_phantom_pipes(struct dc *dc, struct dc_state *context,
 	// be a valid candidate for SubVP (i.e. has a plane, stream, doesn't
 	// already have phantom pipe assigned, etc.) by previous checks.
 	phantom_stream = dcn32_enable_phantom_stream(dc, context, pipes, pipe_cnt, index);
+	if (!phantom_stream)
+		return;
+
 	dcn32_enable_phantom_plane(dc, context, phantom_stream, index);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < dc->res_pool->pipe_count; i++) {