1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/atxp1.c b/drivers/hwmon/atxp1.c
index 441324fc6b8b..53324f56404e 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/atxp1.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/atxp1.c
@@ -268,12 +268,11 @@ static int atxp1_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address, int kind)
         if (!i2c_check_functionality(adapter, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA))
                 goto exit;
 
-        if (!(data = kmalloc(sizeof(struct atxp1_data), GFP_KERNEL))) {
+        if (!(data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct atxp1_data), GFP_KERNEL))) {
                 err = -ENOMEM;
                 goto exit;
         }
 
-        memset(data, 0, sizeof(struct atxp1_data));
         new_client = &data->client;
         i2c_set_clientdata(new_client, data);