diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
index 043c73dfd2c98..5c6fc16e4b925 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ void xen_init_lock_cpu(int cpu)
 	     cpu, per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu));
 
 	name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "spinlock%d", cpu);
+	per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = name;
 	irq = bind_ipi_to_irqhandler(XEN_SPIN_UNLOCK_VECTOR,
 				     cpu,
 				     dummy_handler,
@@ -85,7 +86,6 @@ void xen_init_lock_cpu(int cpu)
 	if (irq >= 0) {
 		disable_irq(irq); /* make sure it's never delivered */
 		per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu) = irq;
-		per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = name;
 	}
 
 	printk("cpu %d spinlock event irq %d\n", cpu, irq);
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu)
 	if (!xen_pvspin)
 		return;
 
+	kfree(per_cpu(irq_name, cpu));
+	per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL;
 	/*
 	 * When booting the kernel with 'mitigations=auto,nosmt', the secondary
 	 * CPUs are not activated, and lock_kicker_irq is not initialized.
@@ -108,8 +110,6 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu)
 
 	unbind_from_irqhandler(irq, NULL);
 	per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu) = -1;
-	kfree(per_cpu(irq_name, cpu));
-	per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL;
 }
 
 PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(xen_vcpu_stolen);