diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 49c39d79a63cd16e99f3a4bf3cb8628eb69c749d..b92f22114b22cb66efdc0560158ee16802925c09 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.24 Engineering
 	Fixed slapd modify to return actual error (ITS#6581)
 	Fixed slapd sortvals of attributes with 1 value (ITS#6715)
 	Fixed slapd syncrepl reuse of presence list (ITS#6707)
+	Fixed slapd syncrepl unitialized return code (ITS#6719)
 	Fixed slapd-bdb hasSubordinates generation (ITS#6712)
 	Fixed slapd-bdb entry cache delete failure (ITS#6577)
 	Fixed slapd-bdb error propogation to overlays (ITS#6633)
diff --git a/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c b/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c
index d3d5dcf5791eb6f7e7e76d46c9d677ec3de783ad..b2f7cd3be65f1764f49c9b2220e6fe4a4cda56c6 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c
@@ -2915,7 +2915,7 @@ syncrepl_add_glue_ancestors(
 	Backend *be = op->o_bd;
 	slap_callback cb = { NULL };
 	Attribute	*a;
-	int	rc;
+	int	rc = LDAP_SUCCESS;
 	int suffrdns;
 	int i;
 	struct berval dn = BER_BVNULL;