diff --git a/examples/gguf/gguf.cpp b/examples/gguf/gguf.cpp
index 57514377107d7..7498f85efc4f9 100644
--- a/examples/gguf/gguf.cpp
+++ b/examples/gguf/gguf.cpp
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ static bool gguf_ex_read_0(const std::string & fname) {
 
     struct gguf_context * ctx = gguf_init_from_file(fname.c_str(), params);
 
+    if (!ctx) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: failed to load '%s'\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
+        return false;
+    }
+
     printf("%s: version:      %d\n", __func__, gguf_get_version(ctx));
     printf("%s: alignment:   %zu\n", __func__, gguf_get_alignment(ctx));
     printf("%s: data offset: %zu\n", __func__, gguf_get_data_offset(ctx));
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml.c b/ggml/src/ggml.c
index 7a39c685b6f98..dbb3a3ebe1cca 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml.c
@@ -21015,7 +21015,7 @@ struct gguf_context * gguf_init_from_file(const char * fname, struct gguf_init_p
             gguf_tensor_info_sanitize(info);
 
             // make sure there is no duplicated tensor names
-            for (uint64_t j = 0; j < i; ++j) {
+            for (uint64_t j = 0; j < i && ok; ++j) {
                 if (strcmp(info->name.data, ctx->infos[j].name.data) == 0) {
                     fprintf(stderr, "%s: duplicated tensor name %s\n", __func__, info->name.data);
                     ok = false;