diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c
index d3265a89538ae27bb0ce2ecfdbd6fb551e25e083..003344ccfffcde1d88a43556fa404be11072be36 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #include "ptlrpc_internal.h"
 
 /* The following are visible and mutable through /sys/module/ptlrpc */
-int test_req_buffer_pressure = 0;
+int test_req_buffer_pressure;
 module_param(test_req_buffer_pressure, int, 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(test_req_buffer_pressure, "set non-zero to put pressure on request buffer pools");
 module_param(at_min, int, 0644);