diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 2a438a9..e447799 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -107,40 +107,18 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_get_backing_dev_info);
 
-/*
- * We can't just memset() the structure, since the allocation path
- * already stored some information in the request.
- */
 void rq_init(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 {
+	memset(rq, 0, sizeof(*rq));
+
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->queuelist);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->donelist);
 	rq->q = q;
 	rq->sector = rq->hard_sector = (sector_t) -1;
-	rq->nr_sectors = rq->hard_nr_sectors = 0;
-	rq->current_nr_sectors = rq->hard_cur_sectors = 0;
-	rq->bio = rq->biotail = NULL;
 	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&rq->hash);
 	RB_CLEAR_NODE(&rq->rb_node);
-	rq->rq_disk = NULL;
-	rq->nr_phys_segments = 0;
-	rq->nr_hw_segments = 0;
-	rq->ioprio = 0;
-	rq->special = NULL;
-	rq->buffer = NULL;
 	rq->tag = -1;
-	rq->errors = 0;
 	rq->ref_count = 1;
-	rq->cmd_len = 0;
-	memset(rq->cmd, 0, sizeof(rq->cmd));
-	rq->data_len = 0;
-	rq->extra_len = 0;
-	rq->sense_len = 0;
-	rq->data = NULL;
-	rq->sense = NULL;
-	rq->end_io = NULL;
-	rq->end_io_data = NULL;
-	rq->next_rq = NULL;
 }
 
 static void req_bio_endio(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio,
@@ -607,6 +585,8 @@
 	if (!rq)
 		return NULL;
 
+	rq_init(q, rq);
+
 	/*
 	 * first three bits are identical in rq->cmd_flags and bio->bi_rw,
 	 * see bio.h and blkdev.h
@@ -789,8 +769,6 @@
 	if (ioc_batching(q, ioc))
 		ioc->nr_batch_requests--;
 
-	rq_init(q, rq);
-
 	blk_add_trace_generic(q, bio, rw, BLK_TA_GETRQ);
 out:
 	return rq;