diff --git a/media/libstagefright/MPEG4Extractor.cpp b/media/libstagefright/MPEG4Extractor.cpp
index ba904072895f2..4bbc25181d693 100644
--- a/media/libstagefright/MPEG4Extractor.cpp
+++ b/media/libstagefright/MPEG4Extractor.cpp
@@ -872,7 +872,11 @@ status_t MPEG4Extractor::parseChunk(off_t *offset, int depth) {
             }
 
             size_t max_size;
-            CHECK_EQ(mLastTrack->sampleTable->getMaxSampleSize(&max_size), OK);
+            err = mLastTrack->sampleTable->getMaxSampleSize(&max_size);
+
+            if (err != OK) {
+                return err;
+            }
 
             // Assume that a given buffer only contains at most 10 fragments,
             // each fragment originally prefixed with a 2 byte length will