diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
index 620366dff7548e5af5d8582738e3bf2271cae0f4..fd6c8b66f06fd97734bfdad5917c7f65de70265d 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ vhost_scsi_handle_vq(struct vhost_scsi *vs, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
 	struct iov_iter out_iter, in_iter, prot_iter, data_iter;
 	u64 tag;
 	u32 exp_data_len, data_direction;
-	unsigned out, in;
+	unsigned int out = 0, in = 0;
 	int head, ret, prot_bytes;
 	size_t req_size, rsp_size = sizeof(struct virtio_scsi_cmd_resp);
 	size_t out_size, in_size;