diff --git a/libavcodec/error_resilience.c b/libavcodec/error_resilience.c
index 716fd60a2a..3366db1355 100644
--- a/libavcodec/error_resilience.c
+++ b/libavcodec/error_resilience.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ void ff_er_frame_end(ERContext *s)
             const int mb_xy = s->mb_index2xy[i];
             int       error = s->error_status_table[mb_xy];
 
-            if (s->mbskip_table && !s->mbskip_table[mb_xy]) // FIXME partition specific
+            if (!s->mbskip_table || !s->mbskip_table[mb_xy]) // FIXME partition specific
                 distance++;
             if (error & (1 << error_type))
                 distance = 0;