diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_reg_allocate.cpp b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_reg_allocate.cpp
index 9fd4922bb3f..1ace91fafef 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_reg_allocate.cpp
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_vec4_reg_allocate.cpp
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ vec4_visitor::reg_allocate()
    if (!ra_allocate_no_spills(g)) {
       ralloc_free(g);
       fail("No register spilling support yet\n");
+      return;
    }
 
    /* Get the chosen virtual registers for each node, and map virtual