There is 1 place allocating it and another reallocating. Move such
procedures to a common function.

v2: updated changelog
Tested-by: NXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>