diff --git a/paddle/fluid/operators/math/blas_impl.h b/paddle/fluid/operators/math/blas_impl.h
index 55151c5483a38bdd44ac6260b2534684e0e3a2fd..cb4044b1b08c7a154a07ecf6b1cf58a84a46876a 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/operators/math/blas_impl.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/operators/math/blas_impl.h
@@ -1041,6 +1041,12 @@ void Blas<platform::CPUDeviceContext>::BatchedGEMM(
     CBLAS_TRANSPOSE transA, CBLAS_TRANSPOSE transB, int M, int N, int K,
     T alpha, const T *A, const T *B, T beta, T *C, int batchCount,
     int64_t strideA, int64_t strideB) const {
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_NOT_NULL(
+      A, platform::errors::InvalidArgument("Pointer A should not be null."));
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_NOT_NULL(
+      B, platform::errors::InvalidArgument("Pointer B should not be null."));
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_NOT_NULL(
+      C, platform::errors::InvalidArgument("Pointer C should not be null."));
 #ifdef PADDLE_WITH_MKLML
   int lda = (transA == CblasNoTrans) ? K : M;
   int ldb = (transB == CblasNoTrans) ? N : K;
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_linear.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_linear.py
index 9d07a80da15dbfd35ffdedbcb09e82d59a84486e..2f722fc80050139dbce4cecb7925cea755b8dd9d 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_linear.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_linear.py
@@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ class LinearTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal(res_f, res_nn)
         np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal(res_nn, res_np)
 
+    def test_error_dummy_input(self, place=paddle.CPUPlace()):
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            x_arr = np.array([], dtype=np.float32)
+            x = paddle.to_tensor(
+                np.reshape(x_arr, (0, 4, 4, 4)), dtype='float32')
+            weight = paddle.zeros([4, 4, 4], dtype='float32')
+            bias = paddle.to_tensor([], dtype='float32')
+            paddle.nn.functional.linear(x, weight, bias=bias)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()