diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 77c7c8a54da7..77c84d6f1af6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4382,7 +4382,7 @@ static int ext4_alloc_file_blocks(struct file *file, ext4_lblk_t offset,
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
 	handle_t *handle;
-	int ret, ret2 = 0, ret3 = 0;
+	int ret = 0, ret2 = 0, ret3 = 0;
 	int retries = 0;
 	int depth = 0;
 	struct ext4_map_blocks map;