diff --git a/projects/clr/rocclr/device/rocm/rocdevice.cpp b/projects/clr/rocclr/device/rocm/rocdevice.cpp
index 2c5d041de9..21375aa875 100644
--- a/projects/clr/rocclr/device/rocm/rocdevice.cpp
+++ b/projects/clr/rocclr/device/rocm/rocdevice.cpp
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ Device::Device(hsa_agent_t bkendDevice)
   system_kernarg_segment_.handle = 0;
   gpuvm_segment_.handle = 0;
   gpu_fine_grained_segment_.handle = 0;
+  gpu_ext_fine_grained_segment_.handle = 0;
   prefetch_signal_.handle = 0;
   isXgmi_ = false;
   cache_state_ = Device::CacheState::kCacheStateInvalid;
@@ -2360,8 +2361,11 @@ void Device::deviceVmemRelease(uint64_t mem_handle) const {
 
 void* Device::deviceLocalAlloc(size_t size, bool atomics, bool pseudo_fine_grain,
                                bool contiguous) const {
-  const hsa_amd_memory_pool_t& pool = (pseudo_fine_grain) ? gpu_ext_fine_grained_segment_
-                                      : (atomics) ? gpu_fine_grained_segment_ : gpuvm_segment_;
+
+  const hsa_amd_memory_pool_t& pool = (pseudo_fine_grain && gpu_ext_fine_grained_segment_.handle)
+                                       ? gpu_ext_fine_grained_segment_ 
+                                         : (atomics && gpu_fine_grained_segment_.handle)
+                                            ? gpu_fine_grained_segment_ : gpuvm_segment_;
 
   if (pool.handle == 0 || gpuvm_segment_max_alloc_ == 0) {
     DevLogPrintfError("Invalid argument, pool_handle: 0x%x , max_alloc: %u \n",