diff --git a/cc/vndk.go b/cc/vndk.go
index 7d8777c..b2614c5 100644
--- a/cc/vndk.go
+++ b/cc/vndk.go
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
 		panic(err)
 	}
 
-	if m.HasStubsVariants() && name != "libz" {
+	if lib := m.library; lib != nil && lib.hasStubsVariants() && name != "libz" {
 		// b/155456180 libz is the ONLY exception here. We don't want to make
 		// libz an LLNDK library because we in general can't guarantee that
 		// libz will behave consistently especially about the compression.