diff --git a/drivers/net/nlmon.c b/drivers/net/nlmon.c
index 5e19a6839dea8..e026bfc83757d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/nlmon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/nlmon.c
@@ -17,17 +17,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t nlmon_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
-static int nlmon_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
-{
-	dev->lstats = netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats(struct pcpu_lstats);
-	return dev->lstats == NULL ? -ENOMEM : 0;
-}
-
-static void nlmon_dev_uninit(struct net_device *dev)
-{
-	free_percpu(dev->lstats);
-}
-
 struct nlmon {
 	struct netlink_tap nt;
 };
@@ -72,8 +61,6 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops nlmon_ethtool_ops = {
 };
 
 static const struct net_device_ops nlmon_ops = {
-	.ndo_init = nlmon_dev_init,
-	.ndo_uninit = nlmon_dev_uninit,
 	.ndo_open = nlmon_open,
 	.ndo_stop = nlmon_close,
 	.ndo_start_xmit = nlmon_xmit,
@@ -92,6 +79,7 @@ static void nlmon_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST |
 			NETIF_F_HIGHDMA | NETIF_F_LLTX;
 	dev->flags = IFF_NOARP;
+	dev->pcpu_stat_type = NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_LSTATS;
 
 	/* That's rather a softlimit here, which, of course,
 	 * can be altered. Not a real MTU, but what is to be