diff --git a/fs/fat/dir.c b/fs/fat/dir.c
index 4ad64732cbced5460d238d637f54f596e4ab0a07..5efbd5d7701a1d63721f646958d92f36830807f0 100644
--- a/fs/fat/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fat/dir.c
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ int fat_add_entries(struct inode *dir, void *slots, int nr_slots,
 	struct super_block *sb = dir->i_sb;
 	struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(sb);
 	struct buffer_head *bh, *prev, *bhs[3]; /* 32*slots (672bytes) */
-	struct msdos_dir_entry *de;
+	struct msdos_dir_entry *uninitialized_var(de);
 	int err, free_slots, i, nr_bhs;
 	loff_t pos, i_pos;