diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index e29c3337ca81..8ef8c9337809 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -45,10 +45,9 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
 	for (i = 0; i < image->nr_segments; i++) {
 		current_segment = &image->segment[i];
 
-		err = memblock_is_region_memory(current_segment->mem,
-						current_segment->memsz);
-		if (err)
-			return - EINVAL;
+		if (!memblock_is_region_memory(current_segment->mem,
+					       current_segment->memsz))
+			return -EINVAL;
 
 		err = get_user(header, (__be32*)current_segment->buf);
 		if (err)