1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c
index e988caa797cb..20b6e1b3f5e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static void *alloc_ring(struct pci_dev *pdev, size_t nelem, size_t elem_size,
 {
         size_t len = nelem * elem_size;
         void *s = NULL;
-        void *p = dma_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, len, phys, GFP_KERNEL);
+        void *p = dma_zalloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, len, phys, GFP_KERNEL);
 
         if (!p)
                 return NULL;
@@ -633,7 +633,6 @@ static void *alloc_ring(struct pci_dev *pdev, size_t nelem, size_t elem_size,
                 }
                 *(void **)metadata = s;
         }
-        memset(p, 0, len);
         return p;
 }