diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c b/drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
index 6c95f61a32e73d54ed70f461e676826075419f45..49ab09468ba15c12ec80e3e34b1656e450f1fa70 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
@@ -416,6 +416,10 @@ int reservation_object_get_fences_rcu(struct reservation_object *obj,
 					   GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
 			if (!nshared) {
 				rcu_read_unlock();
+
+				dma_fence_put(fence_excl);
+				fence_excl = NULL;
+
 				nshared = krealloc(shared, sz, GFP_KERNEL);
 				if (nshared) {
 					shared = nshared;