diff --git a/extensions-builtin/sdnq b/extensions-builtin/sdnq
index a0ceca93e..3986a375f 160000
--- a/extensions-builtin/sdnq
+++ b/extensions-builtin/sdnq
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a0ceca93e2791776362d4e34c417abb7b22b861e
+Subproject commit 3986a375fc419945538063fd468f2c7069c18575
diff --git a/modules/processing_vae.py b/modules/processing_vae.py
index bd80c4d1f..778407fd6 100644
--- a/modules/processing_vae.py
+++ b/modules/processing_vae.py
@@ -141,7 +141,10 @@ def full_vae_decode(latents, model):
     log_debug(f'VAE config: {model.vae.config}')
     try:
         with devices.inference_context():
-            decoded = model.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            decoded = model.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)
+            if decoded is None or len(decoded) == 0:
+                raise RuntimeError('returned no data')
+            decoded = decoded[0]
     except Exception as e:
         log.error(f'VAE decode: {e}')
         if 'out of memory' not in str(e) and 'no data' not in str(e):