diff --git a/legacy/evas/ChangeLog b/legacy/evas/ChangeLog
index cb7d104c04..575c56a4ef 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/evas/ChangeLog
@@ -607,3 +607,8 @@
           points to a bug in the nvidia drivers where the sleep logic
           in glXSwapBuffers() hasn't been transferred to glXWaitGL().
           Avoid use of glXWaitGL() to avoid the nvidia bug.
+
+2012-01-02  Cedric Bail
+
+	* Fix unitialized value when running generic loader without any
+	application found to open the file.
diff --git a/legacy/evas/src/modules/loaders/generic/evas_image_load_generic.c b/legacy/evas/src/modules/loaders/generic/evas_image_load_generic.c
index 4025367771..2bbfd3e790 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/src/modules/loaders/generic/evas_image_load_generic.c
+++ b/legacy/evas/src/modules/loaders/generic/evas_image_load_generic.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ _load(Image_Entry *ie, const char *file, const char *key, int *error, Eina_Bool
    int read_data = 0;
    char *tmpfname = NULL, *shmfname = NULL;
    DATA32 *body;
-   FILE *f;
+   FILE *f = NULL;
 
    libdir = _evas_module_libdir_get();
    cmd_len = strlen(libdir);