diff --git a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
index b1f00695c7..c80e638cad 100644
--- a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
+++ b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
@@ -905,6 +905,7 @@ av_cold int ff_vaapi_encode_init(AVCodecContext *avctx,
     }
 
     ctx->codec = type;
+    ctx->codec_options = ctx->codec_options_data;
 
     ctx->priv_data = av_mallocz(type->priv_data_size);
     if (!ctx->priv_data) {
diff --git a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.h b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.h
index 9716578e5a..ec552dad0a 100644
--- a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.h
+++ b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.h
@@ -172,6 +172,11 @@ typedef struct VAAPIEncodeContext {
     int p_counter;
     int end_of_stream;
 
+    // Codec-local options are allocated to follow this structure in
+    // memory (in the AVCodec definition, set priv_data_size to
+    // sizeof(VAAPIEncodeContext) + sizeof(VAAPIEncodeFooOptions)).
+    void *codec_options;
+    char codec_options_data[0];
 } VAAPIEncodeContext;