diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
index 3b7bc369a579..f223d5d5a6f3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ lnet_ping_info_setup(lnet_ping_info_t **ppinfo, lnet_handle_md_t *md_handle,
 {
 	lnet_process_id_t id = {LNET_NID_ANY, LNET_PID_ANY};
 	lnet_handle_me_t me_handle;
-	lnet_md_t md = {0};
+	lnet_md_t md = { NULL };
 	int rc, rc2;
 
 	if (set_eq) {
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c
index 4de085d906c1..2440b07c743c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c
@@ -1940,7 +1940,7 @@ int ll_prep_inode(struct inode **inode, struct ptlrpc_request *req,
 		  struct super_block *sb, struct lookup_intent *it)
 {
 	struct ll_sb_info *sbi = NULL;
-	struct lustre_md md;
+	struct lustre_md md = { NULL };
 	int rc;
 
 	LASSERT(*inode || sb);
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/obd_config.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/obd_config.c
index c4128ac91389..641794613722 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/obd_config.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/obd_config.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(class_find_param);
 
 /* returns 0 if this is the first key in the buffer, else 1.
    valp points to first char after key. */
-static int class_match_param(char *buf, char *key, char **valp)
+static int class_match_param(char *buf, const char *key, char **valp)
 {
 	if (!buf)
 		return 1;
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ int class_process_proc_param(char *prefix, struct lprocfs_vars *lvars,
 		/* Search proc entries */
 		while (lvars[j].name) {
 			var = &lvars[j];
-			if (class_match_param(key, (char *)var->name, NULL) == 0
+			if (!class_match_param(key, var->name, NULL)
 			    && keylen == strlen(var->name)) {
 				matched++;
 				rc = -EROFS;