diff --git a/python/paddle/nn/functional/common.py b/python/paddle/nn/functional/common.py
index 7319b860db8f79262c6f5ab307bed15145472ce7..fac5ca2f7936ee1e4f704bad03cbca4a938d1494 100644
--- a/python/paddle/nn/functional/common.py
+++ b/python/paddle/nn/functional/common.py
@@ -1276,6 +1276,9 @@ def pad(x, pad, mode='constant', value=0, data_format="NCHW", name=None):
 
     x_dim = len(x.shape)
 
+    if mode == "constant" and isinstance(pad, list) and len(pad) == x_dim * 2:
+        return layers.pad(x, pad, pad_value=value)
+
     assert x_dim in [
         3, 4, 5
     ], "input tesor dimension must be in [3, 4, 5] but got {}".format(x_dim)
@@ -1291,9 +1294,6 @@ def pad(x, pad, mode='constant', value=0, data_format="NCHW", name=None):
 
     unsqueezed_dim = []
 
-    if mode == "constant" and isinstance(pad, list) and len(pad) == x_dim * 2:
-        return layers.pad(x, pad, pad_value=value)
-
     if isinstance(pad, Variable):
         if data_format in ["NCL", "NCHW", "NCDHW"]:
             data_format = "NCDHW"