diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index 5c1ca0df5cb0..84f1dcb69827 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ int etm_perf_add_symlink_sink(struct coresight_device *csdev)
 	/* See function coresight_get_sink_by_id() to know where this is used */
 	hash = hashlen_hash(hashlen_string(NULL, name));
 
+	sysfs_attr_init(&ea->attr.attr);
 	ea->attr.attr.name = devm_kstrdup(dev, name, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ea->attr.attr.name)
 		return -ENOMEM;