diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/uvcgadget/configfs.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/uvcgadget/configfs.c
index 3f43b80f6e..853fc21def 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/uvcgadget/configfs.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/uvcgadget/configfs.c
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ configfs_parse_streaming_header (const char *path,
   struct dirent **entries;
   unsigned int i;
   int n_entries;
-  int ret;
+  int ret = 0;
 
   /* Find all entries corresponding to a format and parse them. */
   n_entries = scandir (path, &entries, format_filter, alphasort);