diff --git a/src/gallium/frontends/clover/spirv/invocation.cpp b/src/gallium/frontends/clover/spirv/invocation.cpp
index 48f0d9e1fa0..b92bdb11cad 100644
--- a/src/gallium/frontends/clover/spirv/invocation.cpp
+++ b/src/gallium/frontends/clover/spirv/invocation.cpp
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ namespace {
       const pipe_binary_program_header header { uint32_t(code.size()) };
       binary::section text { 0, section_type, header.num_bytes, {} };
 
+      text.data.reserve(sizeof(header) + header.num_bytes);
       text.data.insert(text.data.end(), reinterpret_cast<const char *>(&header),
                        reinterpret_cast<const char *>(&header) + sizeof(header));
       text.data.insert(text.data.end(), code.begin(), code.end());