diff --git a/src/backends/native/meta-drm-buffer-dumb.c b/src/backends/native/meta-drm-buffer-dumb.c
index 2df48aa5d..d2fcad2f0 100644
--- a/src/backends/native/meta-drm-buffer-dumb.c
+++ b/src/backends/native/meta-drm-buffer-dumb.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ init_dumb_buffer (MetaDrmBufferDumb  *buffer_dumb,
   buffer_dumb->stride_bytes = create_arg.pitch;
   buffer_dumb->drm_format = format;
 
-  return FALSE;
+  return TRUE;
 
 err_mmap:
 err_map_dumb: