2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index d0e3d8495165..e21f4022feb8 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -301,9 +301,8 @@ static int check_perm(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
         /* No error? Great, allocate a buffer for the file, and store it
          * it in file->private_data for easy access.
          */
-        buffer = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer),GFP_KERNEL);
+        buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (buffer) {
-                memset(buffer,0,sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer));
                 init_MUTEX(&buffer->sem);
                 buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
                 buffer->ops = ops;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 6beee6f6a674..4c29ac41ac3e 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -54,11 +54,10 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * iattr)
 
         if (!sd_iattr) {
                 /* setting attributes for the first time, allocate now */
-                sd_iattr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct iattr), GFP_KERNEL);
+                sd_iattr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iattr), GFP_KERNEL);
                 if (!sd_iattr)
                         return -ENOMEM;
                 /* assign default attributes */
-                memset(sd_iattr, 0, sizeof(struct iattr));
                 sd_iattr->ia_mode = sd->s_mode;
                 sd_iattr->ia_uid = 0;
                 sd_iattr->ia_gid = 0;