diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
index 3ba24c4..2fae850 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@
 
 	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, 0, tb, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX - 1,
 			  nldev_policy, extack);
-	if (err || !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_PORT_INDEX])
+	if (err ||
+	    !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX] ||
+	    !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_PORT_INDEX])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	index = nla_get_u32(tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX]);