diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c
index 4aec4b2a5225..8f8f1949d66f 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int dt_cpufreq_early_init(struct device *dev, int cpu)
 	if (!priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&priv->cpus, GFP_KERNEL))
+	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&priv->cpus, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, priv->cpus);