diff --git a/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/CreationTime.java b/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/CreationTime.java
index 647ee7b1a7e31..9dd4f27b1bb8e 100644
--- a/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/CreationTime.java
+++ b/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/CreationTime.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  *     that support it, tests using /tmp directory.
  * @library  ../.. /test/lib /java/foreign
  * @build jdk.test.lib.Platform NativeTestHelper
- * @run main/othervm --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED CreationTime
+ * @run main/othervm/native --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED CreationTime
  */
 
 /* @test id=cwd
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *     scratch directory maybe at diff disk partition to /tmp on linux.
  * @library  ../.. /test/lib /java/foreign
  * @build jdk.test.lib.Platform NativeTestHelper
- * @run main/othervm --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED CreationTime .
+ * @run main/othervm/native --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED CreationTime .
  */
 
 import java.lang.foreign.Linker;
diff --git a/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/libCreationTimeHelper.c b/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/libCreationTimeHelper.c
index e08fe00facec0..6cb20602a170a 100644
--- a/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/libCreationTimeHelper.c
+++ b/test/jdk/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/libCreationTimeHelper.c
@@ -86,9 +86,8 @@ static statx_func* my_statx_func = NULL;
 // static boolean linuxIsCreationTimeSupported(char* file)
 EXPORT bool linuxIsCreationTimeSupported(char* file) {
 #if defined(__linux__)
-    struct my_statx stx;
+    struct my_statx stx = {0};
     int ret, atflag = AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW;
-    memset(&stx, 0xbf, sizeof(stx));
     unsigned int mask = STATX_BASIC_STATS | STATX_BTIME;
 
     my_statx_func = (statx_func*) dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "statx");