diff --git a/io_uring/io_uring.c b/io_uring/io_uring.c
index 8e53b93eeb180e9b22a04ef33a57c1cbde5737d8..8489f1820ad977891fa0967fafecb390a33541d9 100644
--- a/io_uring/io_uring.c
+++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ __cold bool __io_alloc_req_refill(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 {
 	gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN;
 	void *reqs[IO_REQ_ALLOC_BATCH];
-	int ret, i;
+	int ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we have more than a batch's worth of requests in our IRQ side
@@ -1066,8 +1066,8 @@ __cold bool __io_alloc_req_refill(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
 	}
 
 	percpu_ref_get_many(&ctx->refs, ret);
-	for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
-		struct io_kiocb *req = reqs[i];
+	while (ret--) {
+		struct io_kiocb *req = reqs[ret];
 
 		io_preinit_req(req, ctx);
 		io_req_add_to_cache(req, ctx);