1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/dmidecodemodule.c b/src/dmidecodemodule.c
index fc3a7ed..14ff148 100644
--- a/src/dmidecodemodule.c
+++ b/src/dmidecodemodule.c
@@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ static PyObject *dmidecode_get(PyObject *self, const char *section)
                 }
 
                 mapping = dmiMAP_ParseMappingXML(opt.mappingxml, section);
-                assert( mapping != NULL );
+                if( mapping == NULL ) {
+                        return NULL;
+                }
 
                 // Generate Python dict out of XML node
                 pydata = pythonizeXMLnode(mapping, dmixml_n);