diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/cl_object.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/cl_object.c
index b90074790a2af102999f2ec9e675438010f4fd14..7b18d775b001297e1aa75643d9d00641688de4de 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/cl_object.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/cl_object.c
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ int cl_global_init(void)
 {
 	int result;
 
-	cl_envs = kzalloc(sizeof(*cl_envs) * num_possible_cpus(), GFP_KERNEL);
+	cl_envs = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(), sizeof(*cl_envs), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!cl_envs) {
 		result = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;