diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 2b686e3f53ad..e9a7ac74823d 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1420,10 +1420,9 @@ static void shmem_pseudo_vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
 {
 	/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
-	vma->vm_start = 0;
+	memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
 	/* Bias interleave by inode number to distribute better across nodes */
 	vma->vm_pgoff = index + info->vfs_inode.i_ino;
-	vma->vm_ops = NULL;
 	vma->vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);
 }