diff --git a/paddle/fluid/platform/cudnn_helper.h b/paddle/fluid/platform/cudnn_helper.h
index e591852cc9580901afbd773f0c03c16f9d9167c9..af0df2efc5e6d59dd6dbb32223d36da6cb591837 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/platform/cudnn_helper.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/platform/cudnn_helper.h
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ class ScopedRNNTensorDescriptor {
   inline cudnnRNNDataDescriptor_t descriptor(
       const cudnnDataType_t cudnn_type, int max_seq_length, int batch_size,
       int input_size, bool time_major, const std::vector<int>& seq_length) {
-    static float padding_fill = 0.0f;
+    static double padding_fill = 0.0f;
     cudnnRNNDataLayout_t layout;
 
     if (time_major) {