diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a81fc66e62cc..dfeb553de798 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5149,9 +5149,10 @@ sub process {
 
 # Check for memcpy(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN) that could be ether_addr_copy(foo, bar)
 		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
-		    $line =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/s) {
+		    defined $stat &&
+		    $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
 			if (WARN("PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY",
-				 "Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2)\n" . $herecurr) &&
+				 "Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2)\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
 			    $fix) {
 				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/ether_addr_copy($2, $7)/;
 			}