diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c
index 15ec5fc65257..dfd3808c34fd 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c
@@ -375,6 +375,18 @@ int rproc_add_virtio_dev(struct rproc_vdev *rvdev, int id)
 				goto out;
 			}
 		}
+	} else {
+		struct device_node *np = rproc->dev.parent->of_node;
+
+		/*
+		 * If we don't have dedicated buffer, just attempt to re-assign
+		 * the reserved memory from our parent. A default memory-region
+		 * at index 0 from the parent's memory-regions is assigned for
+		 * the rvdev dev to allocate from. Failure is non-critical and
+		 * the allocations will fall back to global pools, so don't
+		 * check return value either.
+		 */
+		of_reserved_mem_device_init_by_idx(dev, np, 0);
 	}
 
 	/* Allocate virtio device */