diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index b493c63976cd14df682b08eb3c5cfcbdd9b31382..793908a8a09b11e9297b369638b1f2cf3a344131 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ xfs_end_io(
 {
 	xfs_ioend_t	*ioend = container_of(work, xfs_ioend_t, io_work);
 	struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(ioend->io_inode);
-	int		error;
+	int		error = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * For unwritten extents we need to issue transactions to convert a