diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 5d6fb339de03..5bc0a96beb51 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2094,7 +2094,7 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol)
 		NODEMASK_SCRATCH(scratch);
 
 		if (!scratch)
-			return;
+			goto put_mpol;
 		/* contextualize the tmpfs mount point mempolicy */
 		new = mpol_new(mpol->mode, mpol->flags, &mpol->w.user_nodemask);
 		if (IS_ERR(new))
@@ -2103,19 +2103,20 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol)
 		task_lock(current);
 		ret = mpol_set_nodemask(new, &mpol->w.user_nodemask, scratch);
 		task_unlock(current);
-		mpol_put(mpol);	/* drop our ref on sb mpol */
 		if (ret)
-			goto put_free;
+			goto put_new;
 
 		/* Create pseudo-vma that contains just the policy */
 		memset(&pvma, 0, sizeof(struct vm_area_struct));
 		pvma.vm_end = TASK_SIZE;	/* policy covers entire file */
 		mpol_set_shared_policy(sp, &pvma, new); /* adds ref */
 
-put_free:
+put_new:
 		mpol_put(new);			/* drop initial ref */
 free_scratch:
 		NODEMASK_SCRATCH_FREE(scratch);
+put_mpol:
+		mpol_put(mpol);	/* drop our incoming ref on sb mpol */
 	}
 }