diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
index cb13f1b74416..66324ee4678f 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
@@ -1041,8 +1041,10 @@ static int rproc_fw_boot(struct rproc *rproc, const struct firmware *fw)
 
 	/* look for the resource table */
 	table = rproc_find_rsc_table(rproc, fw->data, fw->size, &tablesz);
-	if (!table)
+	if (!table) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto clean_up;
+	}
 
 	/* handle fw resources which are required to boot rproc */
 	ret = rproc_handle_boot_rsc(rproc, table, tablesz);