diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 53e0fee800864e4b8c29ed793d60a5823d59c773..1eadc95e113294c159a6e5288db831e142be77dc 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	}
 
 	len = nlmsg_attrlen(req_nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN);
-	if (TLV_GET_LEN(msg.req) && !TLV_OK(msg.req, len)) {
+	if (len && !TLV_OK(msg.req, len)) {
 		msg.rep = tipc_get_err_tlv(TIPC_CFG_NOT_SUPPORTED);
 		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		goto send;