diff --git a/libavformat/wav.c b/libavformat/wav.c
index 9f7b3c75f9..a1f9ff109d 100644
--- a/libavformat/wav.c
+++ b/libavformat/wav.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int wav_parse_fmt_tag(AVFormatContext *s, int64_t size, AVStream **st)
     if (!*st)
         return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
 
-    ff_get_wav_header(pb, (*st)->codec, size);
+    ret = ff_get_wav_header(pb, (*st)->codec, size);
     if (ret < 0)
         return ret;
     (*st)->need_parsing = AVSTREAM_PARSE_FULL;