Signed-off-by: Vignesh Babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
 
        if(file->private_data == NULL) {
                file->private_data = 
-                       kmalloc(sizeof(struct cifsFileInfo),GFP_KERNEL);
+                       kzalloc(sizeof(struct cifsFileInfo),GFP_KERNEL);
        }
 
-       if(file->private_data == NULL) {
+       if(file->private_data == NULL)
                return -ENOMEM;
-       } else {
-               memset(file->private_data,0,sizeof(struct cifsFileInfo));
-       }
        cifsFile = file->private_data;
        cifsFile->invalidHandle = TRUE;
        cifsFile->srch_inf.endOfSearch = FALSE;