diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c
index 9aee4a1e2fe9..a15ff38c3d41 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c
@@ -50,8 +50,13 @@ xfs_init_local_fork(
 		mem_size++;
 
 	if (size) {
+		/*
+		 * As we round up the allocation here, we need to ensure the
+		 * bytes we don't copy data into are zeroed because the log
+		 * vectors still copy them into the journal.
+		 */
 		real_size = roundup(mem_size, 4);
-		ifp->if_u1.if_data = kmem_alloc(real_size, KM_NOFS);
+		ifp->if_u1.if_data = kmem_zalloc(real_size, KM_NOFS);
 		memcpy(ifp->if_u1.if_data, data, size);
 		if (zero_terminate)
 			ifp->if_u1.if_data[size] = '\0';
@@ -500,10 +505,11 @@ xfs_idata_realloc(
 	/*
 	 * For inline data, the underlying buffer must be a multiple of 4 bytes
 	 * in size so that it can be logged and stay on word boundaries.
-	 * We enforce that here.
+	 * We enforce that here, and use __GFP_ZERO to ensure that size
+	 * extensions always zero the unused roundup area.
 	 */
 	ifp->if_u1.if_data = krealloc(ifp->if_u1.if_data, roundup(new_size, 4),
-				      GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+				      GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO);
 	ifp->if_bytes = new_size;
 }