diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-xgene-msi.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-xgene-msi.c
index f4c02da84e599..0bfa5065b4405 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-xgene-msi.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-xgene-msi.c
@@ -384,13 +384,9 @@ static int xgene_msi_hwirq_alloc(unsigned int cpu)
 		if (!msi_group->gic_irq)
 			continue;
 
-		irq_set_chained_handler(msi_group->gic_irq,
-					xgene_msi_isr);
-		err = irq_set_handler_data(msi_group->gic_irq, msi_group);
-		if (err) {
-			pr_err("failed to register GIC IRQ handler\n");
-			return -EINVAL;
-		}
+		irq_set_chained_handler_and_data(msi_group->gic_irq,
+			xgene_msi_isr, msi_group);
+
 		/*
 		 * Statically allocate MSI GIC IRQs to each CPU core.
 		 * With 8-core X-Gene v1, 2 MSI GIC IRQs are allocated