diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_compute.c b/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_compute.c
index 905e6e234e0..9e3306b673f 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_compute.c
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/panfrost/pan_compute.c
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ panfrost_create_compute_state(
         so->cbase = *cso;
         so->is_compute = true;
 
-        struct panfrost_shader_state *v = &so->variants[0];
+        struct panfrost_shader_state *v = calloc(1, sizeof(*v));
+        so->variants = v;
 
         so->variant_count = 1;
         so->active_variant = 0;