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:
        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;
 }