diff --git a/packages/muelu/test/unit_tests_kokkos/LWGraph_kokkos.cpp b/packages/muelu/test/unit_tests_kokkos/LWGraph_kokkos.cpp
index 2ce4244e9440..4fd8e231e69c 100644
--- a/packages/muelu/test/unit_tests_kokkos/LWGraph_kokkos.cpp
+++ b/packages/muelu/test/unit_tests_kokkos/LWGraph_kokkos.cpp
@@ -151,13 +151,13 @@ TEUCHOS_UNIT_TEST_TEMPLATE_4_DECL(LWGraph_kokkos, LocalGraphData, Scalar, LocalO
     // we can simply compare the value from LWGraph with those in A
     auto numrows = A->getLocalNumRows(), nument = A->getLocalNumEntries();
     int result      = 0;
-    auto lclLWGraph = graph;
+    auto lclLWGraph = *graph;
     Kokkos::parallel_reduce(
         "MueLu:TentativePF:Build:compute_agg_sizes", Kokkos::RangePolicy<typename NO::execution_space, size_t>(0, 1),
         KOKKOS_LAMBDA(const LO i, int& incorrect) {
-          if (lclLWGraph->GetNodeNumVertices() != numrows)
+          if (lclLWGraph.GetNodeNumVertices() != numrows)
             incorrect++;
-          if (lclLWGraph->GetNodeNumEdges() != nument)
+          if (lclLWGraph.GetNodeNumEdges() != nument)
             incorrect++;
         },
         result);