if (ret)
                goto done;
 
-       /* allocate dummy tail memory for all receive contexts */
-       dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev,
-                                                        sizeof(u64),
-                                                        &dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_dma,
-                                                        GFP_KERNEL);
-
-       if (!dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr) {
-               dd_dev_err(dd, "cannot allocate dummy tail memory\n");
-               ret = -ENOMEM;
-               goto done;
-       }
-
        /* dd->rcd can be NULL if early initialization failed */
        for (i = 0; dd->rcd && i < dd->first_dyn_alloc_ctxt; ++i) {
                /*
        dd->tx_opstats    = NULL;
        kfree(dd->comp_vect);
        dd->comp_vect = NULL;
+       if (dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr)
+               dma_free_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev, sizeof(u64),
+                                 (void *)dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr,
+                                 dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_dma);
+       dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr = NULL;
        sdma_clean(dd, dd->num_sdma);
        rvt_dealloc_device(&dd->verbs_dev.rdi);
 }
                goto bail;
        }
 
+       /* allocate dummy tail memory for all receive contexts */
+       dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr =
+               dma_alloc_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev, sizeof(u64),
+                                  &dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr) {
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto bail;
+       }
+
        atomic_set(&dd->ipoib_rsm_usr_num, 0);
        return dd;
 
 
        free_credit_return(dd);
 
-       if (dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr) {
-               dma_free_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev, sizeof(u64),
-                                 (void *)dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr,
-                                 dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_dma);
-               dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr = NULL;
-       }
-
        /*
         * Free any resources still in use (usually just kernel contexts)
         * at unload; we do for ctxtcnt, because that's what we allocate.