diff --git a/components/tcp_transport/transport.c b/components/tcp_transport/transport.c
index 3ea382e407..902786cf0d 100644
--- a/components/tcp_transport/transport.c
+++ b/components/tcp_transport/transport.c
@@ -1,16 +1,8 @@
-// Copyright 2015-2018 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) PTE LTD
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2022 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
 
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -310,7 +302,7 @@ esp_err_t esp_transport_set_parent_transport_func(esp_transport_handle_t t, payl
 
 esp_tls_error_handle_t esp_transport_get_error_handle(esp_transport_handle_t t)
 {
-    if (t) {
+    if (t && t->base && t->base->error_handle) {
         return &t->base->error_handle->esp_tls_err_h_base;
     }
     return NULL;
diff --git a/tools/ci/check_copyright_ignore.txt b/tools/ci/check_copyright_ignore.txt
index 690bb6877c..8d28b77366 100644
--- a/tools/ci/check_copyright_ignore.txt
+++ b/tools/ci/check_copyright_ignore.txt
@@ -2131,7 +2131,6 @@ components/tcp_transport/test/tcp_transport_fixtures.h
 components/tcp_transport/test/test_transport_basic.c
 components/tcp_transport/test/test_transport_connect.c
 components/tcp_transport/test/test_transport_fixtures.c
-components/tcp_transport/transport.c
 components/tcp_transport/transport_ssl.c
 components/tcp_transport/transport_utils.c
 components/tcpip_adapter/include/tcpip_adapter.h