From 7212fb9caa15119c500edb3a074a5bc6b956605d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrik45719 <andrik.kiev.ua@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:00:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix null pointer dereference in radio chip region check
 (#8613)

---
 src/main.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index c65482292..8fec62953 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ void setup()
 #endif
 
     // check if the radio chip matches the selected region
-    if ((config.lora.region == meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig_RegionCode_LORA_24) && (!rIf->wideLora())) {
+    if ((config.lora.region == meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig_RegionCode_LORA_24) && rIf && (!rIf->wideLora())) {
         LOG_WARN("LoRa chip does not support 2.4GHz. Revert to unset");
         config.lora.region = meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig_RegionCode_UNSET;
         nodeDB->saveToDisk(SEGMENT_CONFIG);