1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 4c8f18aff7c3..749ad15ae305 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -965,6 +965,7 @@ struct rpc_xprt *xprt_alloc(struct net *net, int size, int max_req)
         xprt = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (xprt == NULL)
                 goto out;
+        kref_init(&xprt->kref);
 
         xprt->max_reqs = max_req;
         xprt->slot = kcalloc(max_req, sizeof(struct rpc_rqst), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1102,7 +1103,6 @@ found:
                 return xprt;
         }
 
-        kref_init(&xprt->kref);
         spin_lock_init(&xprt->transport_lock);
         spin_lock_init(&xprt->reserve_lock);