diff --git a/libavformat/sol.c b/libavformat/sol.c
index 6ca8d1c1ee..920582f3d1 100644
--- a/libavformat/sol.c
+++ b/libavformat/sol.c
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ static int sol_read_packet(AVFormatContext *s,
     if (s->pb->eof_reached)
         return AVERROR(EIO);
     ret= av_get_packet(s->pb, pkt, MAX_SIZE);
+    if (ret < 0)
+        return ret;
     pkt->stream_index = 0;
 
     /* note: we need to modify the packet size here to handle the last