diff --git a/drivers/video/arcfb.c b/drivers/video/arcfb.c
index 3ec4923c2d84e875eb27bc1119c1765ea7e73989..c22e8d39a2cb1371ff88bc6840cacbbbc8123c37 100644
--- a/drivers/video/arcfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/arcfb.c
@@ -515,11 +515,10 @@ static int __devinit arcfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 
 	/* We need a flat backing store for the Arc's
 	   less-flat actual paged framebuffer */
-	if (!(videomemory = vmalloc(videomemorysize)))
+	videomemory = vzalloc(videomemorysize);
+	if (!videomemory)
 		return retval;
 
-	memset(videomemory, 0, videomemorysize);
-
 	info = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct arcfb_par), &dev->dev);
 	if (!info)
 		goto err;
diff --git a/drivers/video/broadsheetfb.c b/drivers/video/broadsheetfb.c
index ebda6876d3a9efe26c2883ac7e73f8fad020c4fc..377dde3d5bfc8954aaccfc643b9664408e0c9da1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/broadsheetfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/broadsheetfb.c
@@ -1101,12 +1101,10 @@ static int __devinit broadsheetfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 
 	videomemorysize = roundup((dpyw*dpyh), PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	videomemory = vmalloc(videomemorysize);
+	videomemory = vzalloc(videomemorysize);
 	if (!videomemory)
 		goto err_fb_rel;
 
-	memset(videomemory, 0, videomemorysize);
-
 	info->screen_base = (char *)videomemory;
 	info->fbops = &broadsheetfb_ops;
 
diff --git a/drivers/video/hecubafb.c b/drivers/video/hecubafb.c
index 1b94643ecbcfff4dd63eca7b52953ba2f702f21e..fbef15f7a21803051e778b89436cd08c2f0f0561 100644
--- a/drivers/video/hecubafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/hecubafb.c
@@ -231,11 +231,10 @@ static int __devinit hecubafb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 
 	videomemorysize = (DPY_W*DPY_H)/8;
 
-	if (!(videomemory = vmalloc(videomemorysize)))
+	videomemory = vzalloc(videomemorysize);
+	if (!videomemory)
 		return retval;
 
-	memset(videomemory, 0, videomemorysize);
-
 	info = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct hecubafb_par), &dev->dev);
 	if (!info)
 		goto err_fballoc;
diff --git a/drivers/video/metronomefb.c b/drivers/video/metronomefb.c
index ed64edfd2c43b7a97e693ff30b6e26972caaf7f7..97d45e5115e254647454d7c5b7598053944c7273 100644
--- a/drivers/video/metronomefb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/metronomefb.c
@@ -628,12 +628,10 @@ static int __devinit metronomefb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 	/* we need to add a spare page because our csum caching scheme walks
 	 * to the end of the page */
 	videomemorysize = PAGE_SIZE + (fw * fh);
-	videomemory = vmalloc(videomemorysize);
+	videomemory = vzalloc(videomemorysize);
 	if (!videomemory)
 		goto err_fb_rel;
 
-	memset(videomemory, 0, videomemorysize);
-
 	info->screen_base = (char __force __iomem *)videomemory;
 	info->fbops = &metronomefb_ops;
 
diff --git a/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c b/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c
index a20218c2fda8be0a98b4a219bff743db2a0b5018..beac52fc1c0eea6c1cadf337983c3b2b5c78614d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c
+++ b/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.c
@@ -395,10 +395,9 @@ static int __devinit xenfb_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	spin_lock_init(&info->dirty_lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&info->resize_lock);
 
-	info->fb = vmalloc(fb_size);
+	info->fb = vzalloc(fb_size);
 	if (info->fb == NULL)
 		goto error_nomem;
-	memset(info->fb, 0, fb_size);
 
 	info->nr_pages = (fb_size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;