From 2b9054d3b2bedd6b3ed8e5cf87e0236b2acbf8eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Monigatti <paulmonigatti@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:26:46 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Initialised ESPPreferenceObject::backend_ to nullptr (#2411)

---
 esphome/core/preferences.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/esphome/core/preferences.h b/esphome/core/preferences.h
index b3f4b77f78..ad45cd9684 100644
--- a/esphome/core/preferences.h
+++ b/esphome/core/preferences.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class ESPPreferenceObject {
   }
 
  protected:
-  ESPPreferenceBackend *backend_;
+  ESPPreferenceBackend *backend_{nullptr};
 };
 
 class ESPPreferences {