From: Denis Cheng Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/file_table.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/file_table.c~fs-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-instead fs/file_table.c --- a/fs/file_table.c~fs-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-instead +++ a/fs/file_table.c @@ -102,12 +102,11 @@ struct file *get_empty_filp(void) goto over; } - f = kmem_cache_alloc(filp_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + f = kmem_cache_zalloc(filp_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); if (f == NULL) goto fail; percpu_counter_inc(&nr_files); - memset(f, 0, sizeof(*f)); if (security_file_alloc(f)) goto fail_sec; _