diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/client.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/client.c
index 0003158f362c..9f65a10018c0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/client.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/client.c
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ struct ptlrpc_request *ptlrpc_request_cache_alloc(gfp_t flags)
 {
 	struct ptlrpc_request *req;
 
-	req = kmem_cache_alloc(request_cache, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+	req = kmem_cache_zalloc(request_cache, flags);
 	return req;
 }