diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index b4b56fd1e772..b206a7a32e2a 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2309,17 +2309,14 @@ int shmem_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	int err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* Round up to L1_CACHE_BYTES to resist false sharing */
-	sbinfo = kmalloc(max((int)sizeof(struct shmem_sb_info),
+	sbinfo = kzalloc(max((int)sizeof(struct shmem_sb_info),
 				L1_CACHE_BYTES), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sbinfo)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	sbinfo->max_blocks = 0;
-	sbinfo->max_inodes = 0;
 	sbinfo->mode = S_IRWXUGO | S_ISVTX;
 	sbinfo->uid = current_fsuid();
 	sbinfo->gid = current_fsgid();
-	sbinfo->mpol = NULL;
 	sb->s_fs_info = sbinfo;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS