1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c
index b8714a87b34c..70e1e53a632b 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c
@@ -129,9 +129,8 @@ gss_import_sec_context_kerberos(const void *p,
         const void *end = (const void *)((const char *)p + len);
         struct  krb5_ctx *ctx;
 
-        if (!(ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL)))
+        if (!(ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL)))
                 goto out_err;
-        memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx));
 
         p = simple_get_bytes(p, end, &ctx->initiate, sizeof(ctx->initiate));
         if (IS_ERR(p))