diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index a8aacd4b513c4ac1c8eaeb712806b3fcc208eaee..28cba46bf32c5221afcfb2115237750d4da56dec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -2044,6 +2044,7 @@ static __init void mce_init_banks(void)
 		struct mce_bank *b = &mce_banks[i];
 		struct sysdev_attribute *a = &b->attr;
 
+		sysfs_attr_init(&a->attr);
 		a->attr.name	= b->attrname;
 		snprintf(b->attrname, ATTR_LEN, "bank%d", i);
 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/system.c b/drivers/acpi/system.c
index a206a12da78ab04fc6951a89287a92096689aa18..743f2445e2a13f48ce549c8a87e18063d17f84e5 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/system.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/system.c
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ static void acpi_table_attr_init(struct acpi_table_attr *table_attr,
 	struct acpi_table_header *header = NULL;
 	struct acpi_table_attr *attr = NULL;
 
+	sysfs_attr_init(&table_attr->attr.attr);
 	if (table_header->signature[0] != '\0')
 		memcpy(table_attr->name, table_header->signature,
 			ACPI_NAME_SIZE);
@@ -475,6 +476,7 @@ void acpi_irq_stats_init(void)
 			goto fail;
 		strncpy(name, buffer, strlen(buffer) + 1);
 
+		sysfs_attr_init(&counter_attrs[i].attr);
 		counter_attrs[i].attr.name = name;
 		counter_attrs[i].attr.mode = 0644;
 		counter_attrs[i].show = counter_show;
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
index 807224ec8351f819250f6b9c1a3caff97c3275e6..9fa183cfb0e9a41718df3c1ff95e526c31d34ef5 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -642,6 +642,7 @@ void pci_create_legacy_files(struct pci_bus *b)
 	if (!b->legacy_io)
 		goto kzalloc_err;
 
+	sysfs_bin_attr_init(&b->legacy_io);
 	b->legacy_io->attr.name = "legacy_io";
 	b->legacy_io->size = 0xffff;
 	b->legacy_io->attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
@@ -654,6 +655,7 @@ void pci_create_legacy_files(struct pci_bus *b)
 		goto legacy_io_err;
 
 	/* Allocated above after the legacy_io struct */
+	sysfs_bin_attr_init(&b->legacy_mem);
 	b->legacy_mem = b->legacy_io + 1;
 	b->legacy_mem->attr.name = "legacy_mem";
 	b->legacy_mem->size = 1024*1024;
@@ -800,6 +802,7 @@ static int pci_create_attr(struct pci_dev *pdev, int num, int write_combine)
 	if (res_attr) {
 		char *res_attr_name = (char *)(res_attr + 1);
 
+		sysfs_bin_attr_init(res_attr);
 		if (write_combine) {
 			pdev->res_attr_wc[num] = res_attr;
 			sprintf(res_attr_name, "resource%d_wc", num);
@@ -972,6 +975,7 @@ static int pci_create_capabilities_sysfs(struct pci_dev *dev)
 		if (!attr)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
+		sysfs_bin_attr_init(attr);
 		attr->size = dev->vpd->len;
 		attr->attr.name = "vpd";
 		attr->attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
@@ -1038,6 +1042,7 @@ int __must_check pci_create_sysfs_dev_files (struct pci_dev *pdev)
 			retval = -ENOMEM;
 			goto err_resource_files;
 		}
+		sysfs_bin_attr_init(attr);
 		attr->size = rom_size;
 		attr->attr.name = "rom";
 		attr->attr.mode = S_IRUSR;
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 68396d73c838d3c8e4a1fd2e52d7602c23618f80..d55a53ec92349e318dc0edcd587039cc0bd033c6 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -516,6 +516,7 @@ static __modinit int add_sysfs_param(struct module_kobject *mk,
 	new->grp.attrs = attrs;
 
 	/* Tack new one on the end. */
+	sysfs_attr_init(&new->attrs[num].mattr.attr);
 	new->attrs[num].param = kp;
 	new->attrs[num].mattr.show = param_attr_show;
 	new->attrs[num].mattr.store = param_attr_store;