diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/st/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c b/drivers/media/platform/st/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c
index dd74cc43920d..080da254b910 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/st/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/st/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c
@@ -1309,6 +1309,8 @@ static int bdisp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	init_waitqueue_head(&bdisp->irq_queue);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&bdisp->timeout_work, bdisp_irq_timeout);
 	bdisp->work_queue = create_workqueue(BDISP_NAME);
+	if (!bdisp->work_queue)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&bdisp->slock);
 	mutex_init(&bdisp->lock);