diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 6dd4e287d7e2..f1d6014ee318 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 9c56a84478b708e5d8d34d28cc3a8e71842d5b05
+refs/heads/master: 05a178ecdc7396b78dfbb5d8bda65108b37b8672
diff --git a/trunk/net/rds/connection.c b/trunk/net/rds/connection.c
index 273f064930a8..d14445c48304 100644
--- a/trunk/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/trunk/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -148,14 +148,12 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(__be32 laddr, __be32 faddr,
 	if (conn)
 		goto out;
 
-	conn = kmem_cache_alloc(rds_conn_slab, gfp);
+	conn = kmem_cache_zalloc(rds_conn_slab, gfp);
 	if (conn == NULL) {
 		conn = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	memset(conn, 0, sizeof(*conn));
-
 	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&conn->c_hash_node);
 	conn->c_version = RDS_PROTOCOL_3_0;
 	conn->c_laddr = laddr;