diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index b72edf35ec544d0da66346107cededa933ed20dc..0f71aa9a07c5853a7933dea82497bdf04fcc45bd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -1315,10 +1315,10 @@ static void raid_run_ops(struct stripe_head *sh, unsigned long ops_request)
 static int grow_one_stripe(raid5_conf_t *conf)
 {
 	struct stripe_head *sh;
-	sh = kmem_cache_alloc(conf->slab_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sh = kmem_cache_zalloc(conf->slab_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sh)
 		return 0;
-	memset(sh, 0, sizeof(*sh) + (conf->pool_size-1)*sizeof(struct r5dev));
+
 	sh->raid_conf = conf;
 	spin_lock_init(&sh->lock);
 	#ifdef CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
@@ -1435,12 +1435,10 @@ static int resize_stripes(raid5_conf_t *conf, int newsize)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	for (i = conf->max_nr_stripes; i; i--) {
-		nsh = kmem_cache_alloc(sc, GFP_KERNEL);
+		nsh = kmem_cache_zalloc(sc, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!nsh)
 			break;
 
-		memset(nsh, 0, sizeof(*nsh) + (newsize-1)*sizeof(struct r5dev));
-
 		nsh->raid_conf = conf;
 		spin_lock_init(&nsh->lock);
 		#ifdef CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456