diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
index d15762b057c0..6ad4f6c771c3 100644
--- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
+++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
@@ -193,8 +193,10 @@ static struct sock *smc_sock_alloc(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,
 	sk->sk_protocol = protocol;
 	smc = smc_sk(sk);
 	INIT_WORK(&smc->tcp_listen_work, smc_tcp_listen_work);
+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&smc->conn.tx_work, smc_tx_work);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smc->accept_q);
 	spin_lock_init(&smc->accept_q_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&smc->conn.send_lock);
 	sk->sk_prot->hash(sk);
 	sk_refcnt_debug_inc(sk);
 
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_tx.c b/net/smc/smc_tx.c
index 58dfe0bd9d60..08a7de98bb03 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_tx.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_tx.c
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ out_unlock:
 /* Wakeup sndbuf consumers from process context
  * since there is more data to transmit
  */
-static void smc_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
+void smc_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct smc_connection *conn = container_of(to_delayed_work(work),
 						   struct smc_connection,
@@ -512,6 +512,4 @@ void smc_tx_consumer_update(struct smc_connection *conn)
 void smc_tx_init(struct smc_sock *smc)
 {
 	smc->sk.sk_write_space = smc_tx_write_space;
-	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&smc->conn.tx_work, smc_tx_work);
-	spin_lock_init(&smc->conn.send_lock);
 }
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_tx.h b/net/smc/smc_tx.h
index 78255964fa4d..8f64b12bf03c 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_tx.h
+++ b/net/smc/smc_tx.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ static inline int smc_tx_prepared_sends(struct smc_connection *conn)
 	return smc_curs_diff(conn->sndbuf_size, &sent, &prep);
 }
 
+void smc_tx_work(struct work_struct *work);
 void smc_tx_init(struct smc_sock *smc);
 int smc_tx_sendmsg(struct smc_sock *smc, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len);
 int smc_tx_sndbuf_nonempty(struct smc_connection *conn);