3 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c b/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c
index 578737ec7629..c05bda662364 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c
@@ -91,9 +91,8 @@ ia64_elf32_init (struct pt_regs *regs)
          * it with privilege level 3 because the IVE uses non-privileged accesses to these
          * tables.  IA-32 segmentation is used to protect against IA-32 accesses to them.
          */
-        vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+        vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (vma) {
-                memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
                 vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
                 vma->vm_start = IA32_GDT_OFFSET;
                 vma->vm_end = vma->vm_start + PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -117,9 +116,8 @@ ia64_elf32_init (struct pt_regs *regs)
          * code is locked in specific gate page, which is pointed by pretcode
          * when setup_frame_ia32
          */
-        vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+        vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (vma) {
-                memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
                 vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
                 vma->vm_start = IA32_GATE_OFFSET;
                 vma->vm_end = vma->vm_start + PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -142,9 +140,8 @@ ia64_elf32_init (struct pt_regs *regs)
          * Install LDT as anonymous memory.  This gives us all-zero segment descriptors
          * until a task modifies them via modify_ldt().
          */
-        vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+        vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (vma) {
-                memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
                 vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
                 vma->vm_start = IA32_LDT_OFFSET;
                 vma->vm_end = vma->vm_start + PAGE_ALIGN(IA32_LDT_ENTRIES*IA32_LDT_ENTRY_SIZE);
@@ -214,12 +211,10 @@ ia32_setup_arg_pages (struct linux_binprm *bprm, int executable_stack)
                 bprm->loader += stack_base;
         bprm->exec += stack_base;
 
-        mpnt = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+        mpnt = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!mpnt)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
-        memset(mpnt, 0, sizeof(*mpnt));
-
         down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
         {
                 mpnt->vm_mm = current->mm;
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
index aa94f60fa8e7..86e144f321ff 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -2301,12 +2301,11 @@ pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(struct task_struct *task, pfm_context_t *ctx, unsigned lon
         DPRINT(("smpl_buf @%p\n", smpl_buf));
 
         /* allocate vma */
-        vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+        vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!vma) {
                 DPRINT(("Cannot allocate vma\n"));
                 goto error_kmem;
         }
-        memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
 
         /*
          * partially initialize the vma for the sampling buffer
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
index 760dda4d5b6e..f225dd72968b 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
@@ -176,9 +176,8 @@ ia64_init_addr_space (void)
          * the problem.  When the process attempts to write to the register backing store
          * for the first time, it will get a SEGFAULT in this case.
          */
-        vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+        vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (vma) {
-                memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
                 vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
                 vma->vm_start = current->thread.rbs_bot & PAGE_MASK;
                 vma->vm_end = vma->vm_start + PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -195,9 +194,8 @@ ia64_init_addr_space (void)
 
         /* map NaT-page at address zero to speed up speculative dereferencing of NULL: */
         if (!(current->personality & MMAP_PAGE_ZERO)) {
-                vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+                vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
                 if (vma) {
-                        memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
                         vma->vm_mm = current->mm;
                         vma->vm_end = PAGE_SIZE;
                         vma->vm_page_prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(PAGE_READONLY) | _PAGE_MA_NAT);