1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
index 0b1ddb1005ac..783481860174 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
@@ -979,11 +979,10 @@ struct sctp_chunk *sctp_chunkify(struct sk_buff *skb,
 {
         struct sctp_chunk *retval;
 
-        retval = kmem_cache_alloc(sctp_chunk_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
+        retval = kmem_cache_zalloc(sctp_chunk_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
 
         if (!retval)
                 goto nodata;
-        memset(retval, 0, sizeof(struct sctp_chunk));
 
         if (!sk) {
                 SCTP_DEBUG_PRINTK("chunkifying skb %p w/o an sk\n", skb);