diff --git a/tensorflow/lite/c/common_test.cc b/tensorflow/lite/c/common_test.cc
index 65c6ec63b28..7230adff0e9 100644
--- a/tensorflow/lite/c/common_test.cc
+++ b/tensorflow/lite/c/common_test.cc
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ TEST(Quantization, TestQuantizationFree) {
 }
 
 TEST(Sparsity, TestSparsityFree) {
-  TfLiteTensor t;
+  TfLiteTensor t = {};
   // Set these values, otherwise TfLiteTensorFree has uninitialized values.
   t.allocation_type = kTfLiteArenaRw;
   t.dims = nullptr;