diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/exec_ops.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/exec_ops.rs
index f7ad0170cb..f14da80e06 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/exec_ops.rs
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/exec_ops.rs
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ impl EpollContext {
     }
 
     fn do_process_handler(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
-        let mut events = vec![epoll::Event::new(epoll::Events::empty(), 0); EPOLL_EVENTS_LEN];
+        let mut events = [epoll::Event::new(epoll::Events::empty(), 0); EPOLL_EVENTS_LEN];
 
         let epoll_raw_fd = self.epoll_raw_fd;
         let debug_console_sock = self.debug_console_sock.as_mut().unwrap();
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs
index 27183fbe4c..9c4ef4d5a5 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ fn get_field_fn(line: &str, delimiter: &str, file_name: &str) -> Result<String>
 }
 // Ref: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html
 pub fn get_distro_details(os_release: &str, os_release_clr: &str) -> Result<(String, String)> {
-    let files = vec![os_release, os_release_clr];
+    let files = [os_release, os_release_clr];
     let mut name = String::new();
     let mut version = String::new();