diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/linux/vgpu/sysfs_vgpu.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/linux/vgpu/sysfs_vgpu.c
index 30ca7f53c..ade5d82ad 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/linux/vgpu/sysfs_vgpu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/os/linux/vgpu/sysfs_vgpu.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2017-2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static int vgpu_create_ecc_sysfs(struct device *dev)
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-		sysfs_attr_init(&attrs[i].attr);
+		sysfs_attr_init(&attrs[i].attr.attr);
 		attrs[i].attr.attr.name = stats[i].name;
 		attrs[i].attr.attr.mode = VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(S_IRUGO);
 		attrs[i].attr.show = vgpu_ecc_stat_show;