diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index 6e2126760ca691cb5322ecff9eba2d6cb6504259..a7ef209dd3fe0ba8c66d065ae2c1c40f61836b06 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -15881,7 +15881,6 @@ qemuDomainGetPercpuStats(virDomainObjPtr vm,
     if (virCgroupGetCpuacctPercpuUsage(priv->cgroup, &buf))
         goto cleanup;
     pos = buf;
-    memset(params, 0, nparams * ncpus);
 
     /* return percpu cputime in index 0 */
     param_idx = 0;