diff --git a/mmseg/models/backbones/resnet.py b/mmseg/models/backbones/resnet.py
index e52e9122d7..0ff1fe9de9 100644
--- a/mmseg/models/backbones/resnet.py
+++ b/mmseg/models/backbones/resnet.py
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ def __init__(self,
                  zero_init_residual=True,
                  pretrained=None,
                  init_cfg=None):
-        super(ResNet, self).__init__()
+        super(ResNet, self).__init__(init_cfg)
         if depth not in self.arch_settings:
             raise KeyError(f'invalid depth {depth} for resnet')