2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/configfs/file.c b/fs/configfs/file.c
index f499803743e0..85105e50f7db 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/file.c
@@ -274,9 +274,8 @@ 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 configfs_buffer),GFP_KERNEL);
+        buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(struct configfs_buffer),GFP_KERNEL);
         if (buffer) {
-                memset(buffer,0,sizeof(struct configfs_buffer));
                 init_MUTEX(&buffer->sem);
                 buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
                 buffer->ops = ops;
diff --git a/fs/configfs/inode.c b/fs/configfs/inode.c
index e14488ca6411..5047e6a7581e 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/inode.c
@@ -76,11 +76,10 @@ int configfs_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;