diff --git a/src/redis-check-rdb.c b/src/redis-check-rdb.c
index c3420420..ff87f142 100644
--- a/src/redis-check-rdb.c
+++ b/src/redis-check-rdb.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static void printErrorStack(entry *e) {
 
 void process(void) {
     uint64_t num_errors = 0, num_valid_ops = 0, num_valid_bytes = 0;
-    entry entry;
+    entry entry = { NULL, -1, 0 };
     int dump_version = processHeader();
 
     /* Exclude the final checksum for RDB >= 5. Will be checked at the end. */