diff --git a/deploy/cpp_infer/src/main.cpp b/deploy/cpp_infer/src/main.cpp
index ec08cde62..0dda50819 100644
--- a/deploy/cpp_infer/src/main.cpp
+++ b/deploy/cpp_infer/src/main.cpp
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   for (int idx = 0; idx < img_files_list.size(); ++idx) {
     std::string img_path = img_files_list[idx];
     cv::Mat srcimg = cv::imread(img_path, cv::IMREAD_COLOR);
+    if (!srcimg.data) {
+      std::cerr << "[ERROR] image read failed! image path: " << img_path
+                << "\n";
+      exit(-1);
+    }
+
     cv::cvtColor(srcimg, srcimg, cv::COLOR_BGR2RGB);
 
     double run_time = classifier.Run(srcimg);
diff --git a/ppcls/data/reader.py b/ppcls/data/reader.py
index edb56a601..b1a17637d 100755
--- a/ppcls/data/reader.py
+++ b/ppcls/data/reader.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import numpy as np
+import random
 import imghdr
 import os
 import signal
@@ -182,12 +183,17 @@ class CommonDataset(Dataset):
         return
 
     def __getitem__(self, idx):
-        line = self.full_lines[idx]
-        img_path, label = line.split(self.delimiter)
-        img_path = os.path.join(self.params['data_dir'], img_path)
-        with open(img_path, 'rb') as f:
-            img = f.read()
-        return (transform(img, self.ops), int(label))
+        try:
+            line = self.full_lines[idx]
+            img_path, label = line.split(self.delimiter)
+            img_path = os.path.join(self.params['data_dir'], img_path)
+            with open(img_path, 'rb') as f:
+                img = f.read()
+            return (transform(img, self.ops), int(label))
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error("data read faild: {}, exception info: {}".format(line,
+                                                                          e))
+            return self.__getitem__(random.randint(0, len(self)))
 
     def __len__(self):
         return self.num_samples