diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 9dba69731f307a9f543920ecdb96903795f5c77a..d3812581c6c00ff44dc4911d5385f9e8cda79ef1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1830,27 +1830,19 @@ static int talk_to_netback(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 		xennet_destroy_queues(info);
 
 	err = xennet_create_queues(info, &num_queues);
-	if (err < 0)
-		goto destroy_ring;
+	if (err < 0) {
+		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "creating queues");
+		kfree(info->queues);
+		info->queues = NULL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	/* Create shared ring, alloc event channel -- for each queue */
 	for (i = 0; i < num_queues; ++i) {
 		queue = &info->queues[i];
 		err = setup_netfront(dev, queue, feature_split_evtchn);
-		if (err) {
-			/* setup_netfront() will tidy up the current
-			 * queue on error, but we need to clean up
-			 * those already allocated.
-			 */
-			if (i > 0) {
-				rtnl_lock();
-				netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(info->netdev, i);
-				rtnl_unlock();
-				goto destroy_ring;
-			} else {
-				goto out;
-			}
-		}
+		if (err)
+			goto destroy_ring;
 	}
 
 again:
@@ -1940,9 +1932,10 @@ static int talk_to_netback(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
  destroy_ring:
 	xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
-	kfree(info->queues);
-	info->queues = NULL;
+	xennet_destroy_queues(info);
  out:
+	unregister_netdev(info->netdev);
+	xennet_free_netdev(info->netdev);
 	return err;
 }