diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 0c7e247f714cca9121561954328944040edc9a60..fd2294de404c04f0b838d6e4aeba23c279cba2df 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -846,6 +846,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore)
 
 	err = 0;
 	first_block = page->index * blocks_per_page;
+	/* init the page  */
+	memset(page_address(page), 0xff, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
 	for (i = 0; i < blocks_per_page; i++) {
 		int group;
 		struct ext4_group_info *grinfo;
@@ -872,7 +874,6 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore)
 			BUG_ON(incore == NULL);
 			mb_debug("put buddy for group %u in page %lu/%x\n",
 				group, page->index, i * blocksize);
-			memset(data, 0xff, blocksize);
 			grinfo = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group);
 			grinfo->bb_fragments = 0;
 			memset(grinfo->bb_counters, 0,