diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index d0e3d8495165205079ad8acef894744b517cfa18..e21f4022feb841d168c1f30c4f4f5384fbb245f5 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -301,9 +301,8 @@ static int check_perm(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
 	/* No error? Great, allocate a buffer for the file, and store it
 	 * it in file->private_data for easy access.
 	 */
-	buffer = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer),GFP_KERNEL);
+	buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (buffer) {
-		memset(buffer,0,sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer));
 		init_MUTEX(&buffer->sem);
 		buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
 		buffer->ops = ops;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 6beee6f6a67463e77e72ea01c173ce54e6cf918c..4c29ac41ac3ec050f9f680118df5ab5aadf5a12a 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -54,11 +54,10 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * iattr)
 
 	if (!sd_iattr) {
 		/* setting attributes for the first time, allocate now */
-		sd_iattr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct iattr), GFP_KERNEL);
+		sd_iattr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iattr), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!sd_iattr)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		/* assign default attributes */
-		memset(sd_iattr, 0, sizeof(struct iattr));
 		sd_iattr->ia_mode = sd->s_mode;
 		sd_iattr->ia_uid = 0;
 		sd_iattr->ia_gid = 0;