diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 8613282cd3d5..5b6b9976f524 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 9427216476d4fa75103f39d4b228c47d56ba20da
+refs/heads/master: 9b627e9bf49ebfeb060dfae0435bdba06cf27cb8
diff --git a/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c b/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
index 7f88628a1a72..6e4f6c50a120 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -299,8 +299,8 @@ int btrfs_start_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, int num_workers)
 					   "btrfs-%s-%d", workers->name,
 					   workers->num_workers + i);
 		if (IS_ERR(worker->task)) {
-			kfree(worker);
 			ret = PTR_ERR(worker->task);
+			kfree(worker);
 			goto fail;
 		}