diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c
index 43f601c84b4f..79d35ab43729 100644
--- a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c
+++ b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ static int __qcom_smd_send(struct qcom_smd_channel *channel, const void *data,
 	__le32 hdr[5] = { cpu_to_le32(len), };
 	int tlen = sizeof(hdr) + len;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	/* Word aligned channels only accept word size aligned data */
 	if (channel->info_word && len % 4)