1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index 632561dd9c50..1d0ca3eaaca5 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ build_path_from_dentry(struct dentry *direntry)
         struct dentry *temp;
         int namelen = 0;
         char *full_path;
-        char dirsep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(CIFS_SB(direntry->d_sb));
+        char dirsep;
 
         if(direntry == NULL)
                 return NULL;  /* not much we can do if dentry is freed and
                 we need to reopen the file after it was closed implicitly
                 when the server crashed */
 
+        dirsep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(CIFS_SB(direntry->d_sb));
 cifs_bp_rename_retry:
         for (temp = direntry; !IS_ROOT(temp);) {
                 namelen += (1 + temp->d_name.len);
@@ -255,12 +256,10 @@ cifs_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, int mode,
                         CIFSSMBClose(xid, pTcon, fileHandle);
                 } else if(newinode) {
                         pCifsFile =
-                           kmalloc(sizeof (struct cifsFileInfo), GFP_KERNEL);
+                           kzalloc(sizeof (struct cifsFileInfo), GFP_KERNEL);
                         
                         if(pCifsFile == NULL)
                                 goto cifs_create_out;
-                        memset((char *)pCifsFile, 0,
-                               sizeof (struct cifsFileInfo));
                         pCifsFile->netfid = fileHandle;
                         pCifsFile->pid = current->tgid;
                         pCifsFile->pInode = newinode;