diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 6e71a2a..4b81794 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ static struct dentry *btrfs_mount_root(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	 * it for searching for existing supers, so this lets us do that and
 	 * then open_ctree will properly initialize everything later.
 	 */
-	fs_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct btrfs_fs_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	fs_info = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct btrfs_fs_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fs_info) {
 		error = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error_sec_opts;