diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 75751012c552066f3e5f53329933d3f751cacb10..5d6fb339de038945424733d5128846a1a1a7e352 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol)
 		/* contextualize the tmpfs mount point mempolicy */
 		new = mpol_new(mpol->mode, mpol->flags, &mpol->w.user_nodemask);
 		if (IS_ERR(new))
-			goto put_free; /* no valid nodemask intersection */
+			goto free_scratch; /* no valid nodemask intersection */
 
 		task_lock(current);
 		ret = mpol_set_nodemask(new, &mpol->w.user_nodemask, scratch);
@@ -2114,6 +2114,7 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol)
 
 put_free:
 		mpol_put(new);			/* drop initial ref */
+free_scratch:
 		NODEMASK_SCRATCH_FREE(scratch);
 	}
 }