diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index dd01b90ccd2c8056c54e218da6575c4b22ea0ed4..91fd3a951850f0f44f7ac5e3f104ae99af900336 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -6260,6 +6260,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart io_link_timeout_fn(struct hrtimer *timer)
 	if (prev) {
 		io_async_find_and_cancel(ctx, req, prev->user_data, -ETIME);
 		io_put_req_deferred(prev, 1);
+		io_put_req_deferred(req, 1);
 	} else {
 		io_cqring_add_event(req, -ETIME, 0);
 		io_put_req_deferred(req, 1);