diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index f8815ae776e6..8ee5fc21e1ce 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -1355,7 +1355,8 @@ svc_process_common(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct kvec *argv, struct kvec *resv)
 		goto err_bad_proc;
 
 	/* Syntactic check complete */
-	serv->sv_stats->rpccnt++;
+	if (serv->sv_stats)
+		serv->sv_stats->rpccnt++;
 	trace_svc_process(rqstp, progp->pg_name);
 
 	/* Build the reply header. */
@@ -1421,7 +1422,8 @@ svc_process_common(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct kvec *argv, struct kvec *resv)
 	goto close_xprt;
 
 err_bad_rpc:
-	serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
+	if (serv->sv_stats)
+		serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
 	svc_putnl(resv, 1);	/* REJECT */
 	svc_putnl(resv, 0);	/* RPC_MISMATCH */
 	svc_putnl(resv, 2);	/* Only RPCv2 supported */
@@ -1434,7 +1436,8 @@ svc_process_common(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct kvec *argv, struct kvec *resv)
 err_bad_auth:
 	dprintk("svc: authentication failed (%d)\n",
 		be32_to_cpu(rqstp->rq_auth_stat));
-	serv->sv_stats->rpcbadauth++;
+	if (serv->sv_stats)
+		serv->sv_stats->rpcbadauth++;
 	/* Restore write pointer to location of accept status: */
 	xdr_ressize_check(rqstp, reply_statp);
 	svc_putnl(resv, 1);	/* REJECT */
@@ -1444,7 +1447,8 @@ svc_process_common(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct kvec *argv, struct kvec *resv)
 
 err_bad_prog:
 	dprintk("svc: unknown program %d\n", prog);
-	serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
+	if (serv->sv_stats)
+		serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
 	svc_putnl(resv, RPC_PROG_UNAVAIL);
 	goto sendit;
 
@@ -1452,7 +1456,8 @@ svc_process_common(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct kvec *argv, struct kvec *resv)
 	svc_printk(rqstp, "unknown version (%d for prog %d, %s)\n",
 		       rqstp->rq_vers, rqstp->rq_prog, progp->pg_name);
 
-	serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
+	if (serv->sv_stats)
+		serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
 	svc_putnl(resv, RPC_PROG_MISMATCH);
 	svc_putnl(resv, process.mismatch.lovers);
 	svc_putnl(resv, process.mismatch.hivers);
@@ -1461,7 +1466,8 @@ svc_process_common(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct kvec *argv, struct kvec *resv)
 err_bad_proc:
 	svc_printk(rqstp, "unknown procedure (%d)\n", rqstp->rq_proc);
 
-	serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
+	if (serv->sv_stats)
+		serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
 	svc_putnl(resv, RPC_PROC_UNAVAIL);
 	goto sendit;
 
@@ -1470,7 +1476,8 @@ svc_process_common(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct kvec *argv, struct kvec *resv)
 
 	rpc_stat = rpc_garbage_args;
 err_bad:
-	serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
+	if (serv->sv_stats)
+		serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
 	svc_putnl(resv, ntohl(rpc_stat));
 	goto sendit;
 }
@@ -1505,7 +1512,8 @@ svc_process(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	if (dir != 0) {
 		/* direction != CALL */
 		svc_printk(rqstp, "bad direction %d, dropping request\n", dir);
-		serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
+		if (serv->sv_stats)
+			serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
 		goto out_drop;
 	}